单词 | advehent |
释义 | advehentadj. Chiefly Zoology and Embryology. Now rare. Carrying towards, afferent; spec. designating the veins leading to the kidney in a renal portal system. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > relating to conveying or transporting > conveying as a channel or medium > towards advehent1836 1836 A. Thomson in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 646/2 The advehent veins of the kidneys carry venous blood to these organs. 1849 Quain's Human Anat. (new ed.) 511 This advehent vein [sc. the vena portæ], though constituted like other veins in the first part of its course, divides on entering the liver into numerous branches. 1892 Lancet 3 Dec. 1296/2 The usefulness of the apparatus employed in telegraphy is increased according to the number of its advehent and evehent wires. 1897 W. N. Parker tr. R. Wiedersheim Elements Compar. Anat. (ed. 2) 326 The caudal vein usually bifurcates posteriorly to the cloaca, each branch passing along the outer side of the corresponding kidney, and giving off advehent vessels into the latter. 1906 P. Pelseneer in E. R. Lankester Treat. Zool. V. 308 (caption) Glandular enlarged walls of the advehent branchial vessels. 1929 Q. Rev. Biol. 4 195/2 In Rathke's account of these veins in reptiles..there is a perfectly accurate and full description of the advehent and revehent veins of the mesonephros. 1969 O. F. Kampmeier Evol. & Compar. Morphol. Lymphatic Syst. ix. 357/2 The venous trunk resulting from their union runs to the kidney to constitute the renal advehent vein [in lizards]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1836 |
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