Term: portacaval shunt: shunt that is created surgically between the portal vein and the inferior vena cava so that blood from the abdominal organs can bypass the liver
Candidate hypernym: shunt: a passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another → 1
Candidate hypernym: burl: a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree → 0
Candidate hypernym: success: an attainment that is successful → 0
Candidate hypernym: lens capsule: a tenuous mesoblastic membrane surrounding the lens of the eye → 0
Candidate hypernym: spotted weakfish: weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States → 0
Candidate hypernym: urinary retention: holding urine in the urinary bladder → 0
Candidate hypernym: heath aster: common much-branched North American perennial with heathlike foliage and small starry white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: farming: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus ankylosaurus: armored herbivorous dinosaurs of the Cretaceous → 0
Candidate hypernym: pore: any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal → 0
Candidate hypernym: military science: the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare → 0