Hepatic veins syndrome is a condition caused by blockage of the hepatic veins, such as by a blood clot. It presents with a "classical triad" of abdominal pain, ascites, and liver enlargement. It occurs in 1 out of a million individuals. The syndrome can be fulminant, acute, chronic, or asymptomatic. The hepatic veins may be connected with the portal veins in a TIPS procedure. Hepatic veins In human anatomy, the hepatic veins are the veins that drain de-oxygenated blood from the liver into the inferior vena cava. There are usually three upper hepatic veins draining from the left, middle, and right parts
Nominalized adjective Nominalized adjective A nominalized adjective is an adjective that has undergone nominalization, and is thus used as a noun. For example, in "the rich and the poor", the adjectives "rich" and "poor" function as nouns denoting people who are rich and poor respectively. The most common appearance of the nominalized adjective in English is when an adjective is used to indicate a collective group. This happens in the case where a phrase such as "the poor people" becomes "the poor". The adjective "poor" is nominalized, and the noun "people" disappears. Other adjectives commonly used in this way include "rich", "wealthy",