Revehent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Revehent is an adjective meaning (anatomy) Carrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
Meaning
(anatomy) Carrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
Example Sentences
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.
Antonyms for revehent
Common opposites include advehent.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include advehent, efferent, afferent, retrovenous, retrocardiac, retrovisceral.
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