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