Term: portal hypertension: increase in blood pressure in the veins of the portal system caused by obstruction in the liver (often associated with alcoholic cirrhosis), causing enlargement of the spleen and collateral veins
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: dermis: the deep vascular inner layer of the skin
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: blueberry: sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: tyrocidine: a basic polypeptide antibiotic derived from a soil bacterium; a major component of tyrothricin
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: inventor: someone who is the first to think of or make something
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: pathology: the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: lamedh: the 12th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: dissatisfaction: the feeling of being displeased and discontent
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: bladder: a bag that fills with air
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: dissociation: the act of removing from association
Broader: malignant hypertension: severe hypertension that runs a rapid course and damages the inner linings of the blood vessels and the heart and spleen and kidneys and brain | Unrelated: puddingwife: bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil