revehent

English

Adjective

revehent (not comparable)

  1. (anatomy) Carrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
    • 1929, Frederick Randolph Bailey, Adam Marion Miller, Text-book of Embryology, page 231:
      After birth, when the placental blood is cut off, blood is distributed in the liver by branches of the portal vein, which represent the advehent hepatic veins; it is collected again by branches which unite to form the revehent hepatic veins, or hepatic veins proper, and the latter open into the inferior vena cava.

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Latin

Verb

revehent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of revehō
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