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A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
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By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
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An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
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Between lobules; as, the interlobular branches of the portal vein.
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Near the umbilicus; -- applied especially to one or more small veins which, in man, connect the portal vein with the epigastric veins in the front wall of the abdomen.
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The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
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Both renal and portal. See Portal.
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The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
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A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
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Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
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Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
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A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
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Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the liver; -- applied to the interlobular branches of the portal vein.
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A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
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