Hepatic portal system It is often the result of cirrhosis of the liver. Hepatic portal system In human anatomy, the hepatic portal system is the system of veins comprising the hepatic portal vein and its tributaries. It is also called the portal venous system, although it is not the only example of a portal venous system, and splanchnic veins, which is "not" synonymous with "hepatic portal system" and is imprecise (as it means "visceral veins" and not necessarily the "veins of the abdominal viscera"). The portal venous system is responsible for directing blood from parts of the gastrointestinal tract to the liver. Substances
Adjective the end of the word, as in Latin: In Celtic languages, however, initial consonant lenition marks the adjective with a feminine singular noun, as in Irish: Often, distinction is made here between attributive and predicative usage. In English, adjectives never agree, and in French, they always agree. In German, they agree only when they are used attributively, and in Hungarian, they agree only when they are used predicatively: Adjective In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated ) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.