portaln.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɔːtl/, U.S.

/ˈpɔrdl/

Forms: Middle English portale, Middle English porttol, Middle English–1600s portall, 1500s portalle, 1500s porthal, 1500s portoyle, 1500s–1600s porthall, 1500s– portal, 1600s portell, 1600s portle; Scottish pre-1700 portale, pre-1700 portell, pre-1700 1700s portall, pre-1700 1700s– portal.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French portal.

Etymology: < Middle French portal (French †portal ) large or principal door or gate (c1200 in Old French), porch (15th cent.) < post-classical Latin portale city-gate, porch (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), use as noun of neuter of portalis , adjective (see portal adj.). Compare portail n.The forms porthal , porthall are difficult to account for; perhaps compare hall n.¹

a. A door, gate, doorway, or gateway, of stately or elaborate construction; the entrance to a large or magnificent building, esp. when emphasized in architectural treatment; any door or gate (chiefly poetic).

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > stately

portalc1400

portail1484

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > large or elaborate

portalc1400

portail1484

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1036 Vch pane of þat place had þre ȝatez..Þe portalez pyked of rych platez.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 17349 (MED) To that cyte entre is non But jn tweyne places..and every place hath porttoles tweyne Ful stron[g]lych mad there.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i That man whiche lay dede before the portall or gate of the temple.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) ii. vii. f. 119^v I haue sene his..portall and gates ful of knightes, & not marchauntis.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 239^v He..went straight to the portal of the Duchesse chambre, & knocking at the dore, sayd that the Duke was come.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. xxi. 754 The monie they laid downe in the very port-hall or entrie of the Senate house.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 575 Through Heav'n, That open'd wide her blazing Portals .

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶5 Erected over two of the Portals of Blenheim House.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 322 The gates of the portal are by tradition said to be the same which St. Ambrose shut against the emperor Theodosius, till he had done penance.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. v. 21 Not a foot has thy portal cross'd.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 76 Fling the portal apart. The bride Waits.

1948 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 July 20/1 A far vaster immigration..began pouring through the city portals.

1992 Where (N.Y.) Dec. 10/1 Even the portal through which you have entered is antique.

†b. A space within the doorway of a room, partitioned off by an inner door; the inner door to such a space (sometimes forming a movable piece of furniture). Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door

hall-doorc1275

falling doorc1300

stable doorc1330

vice-door1354

hecka1400

lodge-doorc1400

street door1465

gate-doora1500

portal1516

backdoor1530

portal door1532

side door1535

by-door1542

outer door1548

postern door1551

house door1565

fore-door1581

way-door1597

leaf door1600

folding door1611

clap-door1625

balcony-door1635

out-door1646

anteportc1660

screen door1668

frontish-door1703

posticum1704

side entrance1724

sash-door1726

Venetian door1731

oak1780

jib-door1800

trellis?c1800

sporting door1824

ledge-door1825

through door1827

bivalves1832

swing-door1833

tradesmen's entrance1838

ledged door1851

tradesmen's door?1851

fire door1876

storm door1878

shoji1880

fire door1889

Dutch door1890

patio door1900

stable door1900

ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901

suicide door1925

louvre door1953

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > door > doorway > space containing inner door

portal1703

1516 Indenture (St. John's Coll. Cambr.) 20 June in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 244 Tene Doors..wyth 2 Portalls, wherof one shall be at the parlour doore and the oter at the great Chamber doore wythin the said College of..oke and waynescotte.

1569 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 155 I will that theas implements,..the benche in the hall, the portall, and the skryne..shall remayne in and withe the howse.

1634 in Sc. Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 4 208 Item ane great aiken wastall..Item ane aiken portell.

1681 in T. Bell Rec. Exercise of Alford (1897) 322 Ane utter chamber with hewen door and windowes..with timber portall.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 229 Portal..was us'd to signifie a little square corner of a Room, shifted off from the rest of the Room by the Wainscot.

†c. A lesser gate or entrance; a side entrance. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > small or lesser

hatchOE

wicketa1300

wicket-gate1362

portal1706

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Portal, a lesser Gate, where there are two of a different Bigness.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1019 Portal, the arch over a door or gate; the framework of the gate; the lesser gate, when there are two of different dimensions at one entrance.

1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 70 A little side portal, which gave entrance to a vestry.

d. A natural entrance, as of a cave, a mountain pass, etc.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > natural

portal1764

1764 M. Browne Percy-Lodge in Sunday Thoughts (ed. 2) 275 Hollies pale, and dark'ning Yew The Portal keep with solemn View. So look'd the dread Cumæan Cave.

1785 W. Hayley Philos., Hist., & Moral Ess. Old Maids III. 152 Just within the portal of this cave, a miraculous pipe was suspended.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (ed. 2) I. 3 I was reposing in the vast cavern, out of which, from its northern portal, issues the river that winds through our vale.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 230 A river wending towards a portal of black rock.

1933 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 7 July 7/4 The trail will lead to the west portal of the cave, and probably will make possible new explorations of the huge cavern.

1978 Audubon Sept. 109/2 It is at the western portal of the mountains; the foothills roll down into opening country and distant tundra.

2003 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 5 Nov. 2 Divers say the sinkhole..provides a portal to about 18,000 feet of an underground river.

e. The entrance to a tunnel; the structural frame forming such an entrance.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > forming entrance to tunnel

portal1871

1871 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 28 Apr. 3/2 A resolve..to build a railroad from the west portal of the tunnel to North Adams to connect at the depot there with the Troy & Boston Railroad.

1881 Engineering 25 Mar. 296/3 The geologist of the St. Gothard Tunnel..has been giving careful attention to the variations in the air currents between the two portals at Goeschenen and Airolo.

1909 J. W. Orrock Railroad Struct. iv. 85 The end portals for the tunnel consist of 12″ × 12″ posts..for a distance of 8 feet from the ends, with 12″ × 12″ timbers built over and across the end posts, to form retaining wall on top.

1941 H. W. Richardson & R. S. Mayo Pract. Tunnel Driving xxi. 364 Some kind of parapet over the portal is necessary to catch loose rocks rolling into the cut.

1995 Independent 21 Feb. 2/7 The locomotive had just entered the portals of the tunnels when one of the carriages near the back of the train went off the rails.

f. Engineering. A rigid structural frame consisting essentially of two uprights connected at the top by a third member; (originally) such a frame forming the end of a truss bridge. Also called portal bracing, portal frame.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame

portal1876

portal bracing1881

portal frame1908

1876 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 5 178 This bill of materials is calculated: chords, latticing, joint and reinforcing plates..85,912 pounds... Struts and portals..6,000 [pounds].

1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 The portal is to cover double railway lines of normal gauge.

1943 Triumphs of Engin. 109 (caption) Sydney Bridge is designed to bear a load of 11,000 tons... This cross-section is at the bridge portal near the pylon.

1971 Timber Trades Jrnl. 21 Aug. 23/3 After the gale had been blowing for a whole week, the temporary bracing finally gave way and two portals were destroyed.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers ii. v. 379 Those portals..were twenty-six feet high and sixty-four feet wide. They were made of cross-braced two-by-fours rather than steel.

g. Archaeology. A feature of a certain type of megalithic burial structure, consisting of upright stones (and sometimes a capstone) in an arrangement variously resembling a doorway or entrance passage. In later use only attributive, as portal dolmen, portal stone, portal tomb, etc.

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1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vi. 179 Sometimes we find Stones erected, and others lying horizontally on the tops of them, making as at Stonehenge, &c. so many Portals.

1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vii. 187 In the tenement of Kerris there is an oval Inclosure... At the Southern Termination A stand four rude Pillars about eight feet high, at the foot of which lye some large long stones, which I am apt to think did formerly rest upon these Pillars... I am inclin'd to think..that these Stones-erect were designed to distinguish and dignify the Entrance..and that they were erected like some of the Stones at Stone-Henge in the shape of two rude Portals.]

1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 160 In many instances there is found a so-called ‘portal’, consisting of two rows of two or three stones each... These portals are never covered with capstones, but in Germany they are, and it is highly probable..that the portals of the hunebedden of Drenthe formerly possessed them too.

1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 398 The earlier type [of culture] is characterized by segmented megalithic chambers without a passage, but perhaps with a portal.

1951 J. Raftery Prehist. Ireland vii. 100 A secondary capstone is laid across this, giving us the typical Portal Dolmen, which may be open or closed in front. An increase in height of the portal stones, the last remnants of the original ‘horns’, causes the secondary capstone to slope.

1987 New Phytologist 107 217 Court and portal tombs, are usually assigned on the basis of archaeological evidence to the early and late Neolithic periods, respectively.

2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. 1 Before the dolmen was bought, it was damaged by tourists standing on top of it... The cracked portal stone was replaced with another from the nearby limestone pavement.

h. U.S. Theatre. An opening on to a stage; (also) a false proscenium set immediately behind a permanent proscenium, used to reduce the size of the opening.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > entrance to stage

stage-door1761

prompt entrance1879

portal1947

1947 Gloss. Techn. Theatr. Terms (Strand Electr. & Engin. Co.) 23 Portal, German and American terms for pros[cenium] opening.

1959 W. C. Lounsbury Backstage from A to Z 94 Portal, a gate, door, or entrance, usually downstage on either side of the stage. Portals may be scenery constructed for the play, or they may be a permanent part of the proscenium. In many theatres of newer design, portals are built to accommodate spot-lights for sidelighting.

1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 44/1 ‘Gel the lights in the upstage right portal’ are heard shouted across the auditorium.

2003 Entertainm. Design (Nexis) 1 Sept. 8 There is..a round portal, or false proscenium, to represent the world.

2. figurative. Something resembling or suggestive of a portal.

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a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B2^v The brazen walles framde by Semiramis, carued out like to the portall of the sunne.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 63 As doth the blushing discontented Sunne, From out the fierie portall of the East.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 29/1 Bright Portals of the Sky, Emboss'd with sparkling Stars.

1679 B. Keach Glorious Lover 239 Set a constant guard Upon the portals of the treach'rous heart, Lest of this Jewel thou deceived art.

1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 81 Issuing from out the Portals of the Morn.

1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 52 Poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glaikit Folly's portals.

1862 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 7) x. 216 Death, which by the portal of disobedience had found entrance into natures made for immortality.

1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 24 She gazed With eyes, the moonstone portals to her heart.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 182 A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 130 Now, as he jauntily enters the portals of Octogenaria, he offers a timely chronicle, Race.

†3. A cardiac valve or valve leaflet. Cf. earlier portal adj. 1. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > valve

valve1615

portal1666

tricuspid valve1671

mitral valve1696

mitral1835

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 231 The great vein..hath at its entrance into the heart, certain portals, from their form called valvulæ tricuspides.

1714 Bibliotheca Anatomica III. 34/1 If you..press down with the other Hand the upper Part of the Vein, you shall find that it can by no Means be forced or driven beyond the Valve or Portal.

4. Medicine. The place where a microorganism, parasite, or drug enters or leaves the body. Also: the area of the body where a beam of radiation enters or leaves it. Chiefly in portal of entry, portal of exit. Also called port.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > place of entry or exit

portal1695

entry port1901

port1903

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun] > place where drug enters or leaves system

portal1695

port1903

1695 T. Byfield Short Disc. Small-pox 5 No fear People should burst or dye for want of outlets, every Pore will provide a Portal wide enough, when the Matter is sufficiently rarified from within.

1910 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 Sept. 1109/2 We have been led..to view the nasopharynx as the location in the body to be regarded with special suspicion as being the portal of entry of the virus.

1921 Science 5 Aug. 104/1 This is best accomplished when they [sc. parasites] settle down and multipy near some portal of exit.

1931 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 May 1756/1 If the portal is of limited area, the lateral scatter [of X-rays] is small.

1973 G. H. Fletcher & N. du V. Tapley in G. H. Fletcher Textbk. Radiotherapy (ed. 2) i. 65/1 With a 22 Mev beam and a single homolateral portal, the skin reaction is minimal on the entrance side and is moderate on the opposite side.

1977 Lancet 8 Jan. 78/1 Disposable devices are now becoming available for prolonged controlled delivery of appropriate drugs at other portals of entry such as the eye and uterus.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Sept. 55/2 HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces—augmenting an immune response at those portals of entry by using..mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection.

5. Computing. Originally: a server or website that provides internet access. Later also: a website or service that provides access to a number of sources of information and facilities, such as a directory of links to other websites, search engines, email, online shopping, etc. More fully portal site.

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society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > server

mainframe1957

host computer1966

server1969

file server1979

portal1990

1990 Re: DECnet Encapsulation in TCP-IP in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Nov. DEC used to have a product called an ‘internet portal’ which enveloped TCP/IP within DECnet.

1993 Cu Digest (Electronic text) 5 No. 73 ‘Michael and Steven will sift the wheat from the chaff every week.’.. dogshit's Internet portals, said Eisner, are: dshit@hollywood.edu; and dshit@bevhills.gov.

1997 New Media Age (Nexis) 17 July 2 The changes will see MSN (UK) investing more time, money and effort in its portal site www.uk.msn.com.

1998 Guardian 23 July (Online section) 2/5 As more traffic is filtered through fewer of these catch-all supersites, the easier it becomes for portals to control the Web experience, collecting important data on surfers, like their viewing and buying habits, and personal interests.

2001 Contact May 13/1 The image can either be sent as an email, added to a picture album on Ericsson's mobile internet portal, or stored in the camera.

Compounds

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portal arch n.

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1712 W. Goldwin Poet. Descr. Bristol 13 The Southward Range in shelving Breadth descends, A Church with portal Arch the Prospect ends.

1912 Times 3 Oct. 7/7 The deep portal arch of Persia and India has its prototype in the classical exedra common in the Roman bath.

2003 Jrnl. Southwest (Nexis) 22 Mar. 289 The Spanish Islamic tendency to set a portal arch into an enveloping rectangular panel.

† portal-capital n. Obsolete

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1895 A. Nutt Happy Otherworld vi, in K. Meyer tr. Voy. Bran I. 205 The arched doorway..with its wide valves and portal-capitals of burnished gold.

portal door n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door

hall-doorc1275

falling doorc1300

stable doorc1330

vice-door1354

hecka1400

lodge-doorc1400

street door1465

gate-doora1500

portal1516

backdoor1530

portal door1532

side door1535

by-door1542

outer door1548

postern door1551

house door1565

fore-door1581

way-door1597

leaf door1600

folding door1611

clap-door1625

balcony-door1635

out-door1646

anteportc1660

screen door1668

frontish-door1703

posticum1704

side entrance1724

sash-door1726

Venetian door1731

oak1780

jib-door1800

trellis?c1800

sporting door1824

ledge-door1825

through door1827

bivalves1832

swing-door1833

tradesmen's entrance1838

ledged door1851

tradesmen's door?1851

fire door1876

storm door1878

shoji1880

fire door1889

Dutch door1890

patio door1900

stable door1900

ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901

suicide door1925

louvre door1953

1532 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 107 Gemma bandis to the portall dure of the chalmer within the dusty hall.

1641 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 205 For bands and sneck to the portall doore.

1713 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1908) IV. 506 Making up a broken pend and purple wall and new portall doors, and lyning a purple wall behind the west loft.

1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 87 Beside the portal doors, Buttress'd from moonlight, stands he.

1989 Cultural Anthropol. 4 354 He has even commissioned the carving and installation of big new portal doors in the cathedral.

portal gate n.

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1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 77 Which Description he fixed..vpon the Portall gate, where he might of necessitie see his owne impietie as in a glasse transparent.

1830 W. Scott Old Mortality xxiv, in Waverley Novels 356 The portal-gate was broke open, the beams..pulled down and thrown into the river.

2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Nov. h3 Paley is best known for large-scale works created for public spaces throughout the United States—including portal gates to the Renwick Gallery.

portal post n.

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1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. 506 W[ith] rammes and engins falles The portall postes & thresholds vp are throwe[n] & dores of halles.

1907 Daily Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 2 Sept. 8/1 The portal posts for the structure give an idea of what a massive concern the bridge was.

2004 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 5 The Star Jasmine is another twining vine that would climb up the portal posts.

† portal seat n. Obsolete

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1800 R. W. Spencer Beth Gêlert in Poems (1835) 152 Unpleas'd Llewelyn homeward hied, When near the portal-seat, His truant Gêlert he espied Bounding his Lord to greet.

† portal way n. Obsolete

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1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 292 Narrow was the portal way, To one alone fit passage.

1811 A. Liddiard Sgelaighe 4 Now as the wretched peasants stray Beneath the high-arch'd portal way.

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portal bracing n. Engineering = sense 1f; (also) the technique or practice of using portal frames to give strength and stability.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame

portal1876

portal bracing1881

portal frame1908

1881 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 10 164 Strong top lateral and portal bracing would greatly increase the strength and durability of the bridge.

1908 M. S. Ketchum Design of Highway Bridges vii. 112 Portal bracing is placed at the ends of through bridges in the planes of the end-posts to transfer the wind loads from the upper lateral system to the abutments.

1974 Sci. Amer. Feb. 95/1 The Crystal Palace was..the first [building] in which a light frame was made rigid against wind loads by the technique that came to be known as portal bracing.

2002 Vancouver Province (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 3 June a16 Routes to avoid... Pattullo Bridge, New Westminster. Repairs to the portal bracing following a crane crash some months ago.

portal crane n. Engineering a crane mounted on a portal frame, so as to allow the passage of vehicles underneath.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of

quay crane1821

balance-crane1824

well crane1836

water crane1849

jenny1861

jib-crane1873

stacker1875

Titan1876

transfer-elevatora1884

whip-crane1883

Goliath1888

jigger1891

wharf crane1893

floating crane1903

tower crane1906

hammer-headed crane1908

portal crane1908

hammer-head crane1910

luffing crane1913

cherry-picker1945

stacker crane1959

monotower1963

Transtainer1964

portainer1966

1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 (heading) Hydraulic portal crane.

1958 Times Rev. Industry Oct. 20/3 No. 21 Quay at Alexandra Dock has been opened this year after being re-equipped with five 6/3 ton electric portal cranes.

1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 115/1 The Scott kraft-paper mill, with the biggest portal crane in North America.

portal frame n. Engineering = sense 1f.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame

portal1876

portal bracing1881

portal frame1908

1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 The portal or gantry frame..shall be of built-up plates, and shall carry the platform on its top side.

1949 Archit. Rev. 106 287 The mullions in front of the portal frames are bright ultramarine.

1991 Constr. Weekly 18 Sept. 12/4 Construction, being done to a hybrid management contract, will be steel portal frame with brick cladding.

portal strut n. Engineering a horizontal member rigidly joining the tops of two uprights, esp. in a portal frame.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports

sillc897

sole-tree1527

spur1529

brace1530

rance1574

strut1587

ground pin1632

ground-plate1663

strut-beam1668

wale-piece1739

strutting-beam1753

wale1754

stretcher1774

tie1793

tie-beam1823

strutting1833

lattice frame1838

tie-bolt1838

tie rod1839

brace-rod1844

web1845

box girder1849

plate girder1849

lattice beam1850

lattice girder1852

girder1853

twister1875

under-girder1875

truss-beam1877

raker1880

wind-bracing1890

portal strut1894

stirrup1909

knee-brace1912

tee-beam1930

tee section1963

binder-

1894 W. H. Warren Engin. Constr. xix. 294 The perpendicular distance between the end strut of the top lateral system and the intermediate portal strut.

1938 C. T. Bishop Struct. Design x. 194 Portal struts are used at the ends of through bridges to transmit top-lateral stresses to the abutments.

1998 Civil Engin. Apr. 67/1 Portal struts between the trusses prevented the portal frame gantry from providing the minimum vertical clearance for trucks on the Warren truss.

portal-to-portal adj. U.S. relating to or consisting of the time spent on the premises of one's place of work including time spent on essential non-working activities, as changing or washing.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [adjective] > types of payment

fallback1895

portal-to-portal1936

incentive1943

straight-time1944

over-award1950

1918 Los Angeles Times 7 Aug. i.3/1 A majority of the strikers were earning from $7.65 to $11.65 a day on contract work. They struck for an eight-hour day from portal to portal of the mines, a pay day twice a month, and a Sunday off on pay once a month.]

1936 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 10 Oct. 1/6 (headline) Eight-hour portal-to-portal working day is also sought in demands.

1943 Times 4 May 5/3 They will earn wages from the time of arrival on the mine premises to the time of departure. This is called in America the ‘portal-to-portal’ system.

1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 385 Proponents of portal-to-portal pay insist that the worker should be paid for the time involved in necessary activities before or after actual on-the-job time on the ground that otherwise the work could not be done.

1991 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 57 214 The Fair Labor Standards Act did long-term damage by establishing a minimum wage and requiring portal-to-portal pay for miners.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

portaladj.

Brit.

/ˈpɔːtl/, U.S.

/ˈpɔrdl/

Forms: 1600s portall, 1700s– portal.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin portalis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin portalis situated by a gate (late 13th cent.) < classical Latin porta port n.³ + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare portal n.¹

Anatomy and Zoology.

†1. Designating a cardiac valve or valve leaflet. Cf. portal n.¹ 3. Obsolete. rare.

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portal1615

mitral1853

tricuspid valve1877

pulmonary1900

valvar1955

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 375 Not farre from the beginning [it] is diuided or slitte into three small but strong portall membranes or values.

2. Of or relating to the portal vein or structures associated with it. Also: of or relating to the portal system of an organ other than the liver.

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [adjective] > liver > fissure of

portal1648

1648 Case for City-spectacles 9 The Shot had pierc'd the Vena Portall.

1754 S. Mihles tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 453 In many slow or lingering..fevers, small repeated boles..will bring out by day a good deal of the matter lurking in the mesentery and portal system.

1786 tr. A. von Haller First Lines Physiol. II. xxiv. 113 They [sc. the nerves of the liver] accompany the hepatic artery, and, playing about its trunk, are distributed with that and the portal branches throughout the liver [L. circa ejus truncum ludentes, cum ea portarumque vena hepar adeunt].

1843 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 133 298 Another portion [of blood] intermingled with that collected in the portal vessels is sent to the branchiæ.

1892 Lancet 23 Jan. 193/2 (heading) A case of portal pyæmia.

1908 Lancet 14 Mar. 785/1 (title) Portal obstruction without external evidence of portal caval anastomosis.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xxxi. 823/2 The capillary loops from which the portal vessels originate.

1997 L. C. Towns in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. iv. 48/1 Internal hemorrhoids or esophageal varices..may, thus, indicate blockage of venous drainage to the liver, or so-called portal hypertension.

Compounds

portal canal n. any of the ramifying connective tissue spaces within the liver containing a branch of each of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and hepatic duct.

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1833 F. Kiernan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 720 Of the portal canals. These canals..contain the hepatic ducts, the portal veins, the hepatic arteries, [etc.].

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 840 Slight perilobular cell infiltration in the portal canals.

1984 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81 2210/2 Necrosis bridging central and portal canals was present.

portal circulation n. a portal system of blood vessels; the circulation of blood through such a system.

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1842 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 63 A trunk is formed in the great portal circulation,..most of the capillaries which supply it lying at a distance from the liver.

1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 259 The portal circulation through the liver is short-circuited.

1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xii. 206/1 Somatostatin, the tetradecapeptide found widely in the brain and gastrointestinal system, is released by the hypothalamus into the portal circulation to inhibit GH secretion.

portal fissure n. = porta hepatis n.

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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver > transverse fissure of

porta1790

portal fissure1858

porta hepatis1882

1858 H. Gray Anat. 615 The transverse or Portal Fissure is a short but deep fissure..extending transversely across the under surface of the right lobe.

1997 D. R. Shipley Comm. Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos 150 The λοβός is frequently the ‘lobe’, a projection of the liver, an important part of the sacrificial animal for divination; its absence exposes the portal fissure, from which the gall oozes.

portal system n. (a) the system of blood vessels consisting of the portal vein with its tributaries from the stomach, intestines, and spleen, and its branches within the liver; (b) (chiefly with distinguishing word) any other system of blood vessels in which blood is conveyed from one capillary network to another.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > system of > specific system

portal system1754

1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 744 Branches of the hepatic artery and portal vein..must therefore be considered as separate branches of the abdominal portal system.

1974 M. Hildebrand Anal. Vertebr. Struct. xii. 262 In several places in the body (digestive organs, kidneys, hypophysis) blood that has passed a capillary bed elsewhere enters a second capillary bed before reaching the heart. The veins between two capillary networks constitute a portal system.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 8160/2 Absorbed iron is bound to circulating transferrin and passes initially through the portal system of the liver.

portal vein n. [compare post-classical Latin vena portae (1638 or earlier), vena portarum (1755 in the passage translated in quot. 1765), French veine porte (14th cent. in Old French), and earlier porta n., port-vein n., porter-vein n. at porter n.¹ Compounds] (a) (also hepatic portal vein) the short, wide vein formed by the union of the veins from the stomach, intestines, and spleen, which conveys blood to the liver, where it divides again into branches; cf. earlier porta n. 1; (b) (with distinguishing word) a vein conveying blood between the two capillary networks of any other portal system.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein

middle veina1398

portaa1398

saphena1398

funisa1400

sciaticaa1400

guidesc1400

haemorrhoidc1400

salvatellac1400

liver veina1425

median?a1425

mesaraic?a1425

sciatic?a1425

venal artery?a1425

sciat1503

organal vein1523

axillar?1541

weeping vein1543

port-vein1586

lip-vein1598

nose vein1598

sciatic vein1598

cephalic vein1599

hollow vein1605

jugular1615

scapulary1615

subclavian vein1615

umbilical vessel1615

basilica1625

porter-vein1625

neck vein1639

garter-vein1656

matricious vein1656

sacred vein1656

subclavicular1656

subclavial1664

vertebral1718

portal vein1765

cava1809

satellite vein1809

brachial1859

innominate vein1866

precaval1866

postcava1882

precava1882

postcaval1891

Vesalian vein1891

sciatic1892

subcardinal1902

1765 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave IX. 197 When the liver..denies a free passage for the blood to flow..by the vena portarum, all the abdominal viscera, which evacuate their venal blood into the said portal vein, are disturbed in their respective actions.

1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 728 In the sheep, portal veins of considerable size resemble the smaller portal veins in the human subject.

1937 J. S. McDowall Handbk. Physiol. & Biochem. (ed. 35) xxxvi. 554 The kidney [of the frog] is then supplied only by the renal portal vein, a vessel which goes to the tubules only.

1988 E. Segal Doctors xxxix. 494 His first ‘real’ assignment was an extremely complex portacaval shunt, a procedure in which the portal vein in the liver is joined to the vena cava inferior.

portal venous adj. of or relating to the portal vein.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [adjective] > specific vein

organica1400

original1486

basilic?1541

ankle vein1574

sciatical1598

organical1607

basilical1650

subclavicular1656

subclavial1664

saphenal1828

portal venous1833

brachio-cephalic1836

saphenous1840

postcaval1866

precaval1866

tracheloscapular1891

renovascular1902

1833 F. Kiernan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 754 Portal-venous congestion is of very rare occurrence.

1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 601/1 Other conditions which may lead to the presence of gas in the portal venous system include peritonitis and septicemia.

1997 R. Portanova in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. vi. 89/1 The neurohormones enter the portal venous blood and are delivered to the anterior pituitary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	portal
释义	portaln.¹ Brit. /ˈpɔːtl/, U.S. /ˈpɔrdl/ Forms: Middle English portale, Middle English porttol, Middle English–1600s portall, 1500s portalle, 1500s porthal, 1500s portoyle, 1500s–1600s porthall, 1500s– portal, 1600s portell, 1600s portle; Scottish pre-1700 portale, pre-1700 portell, pre-1700 1700s portall, pre-1700 1700s– portal. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French portal. Etymology: < Middle French portal (French †portal ) large or principal door or gate (c1200 in Old French), porch (15th cent.) < post-classical Latin portale city-gate, porch (from 12th cent. in British and continental sources), use as noun of neuter of portalis , adjective (see portal adj.). Compare portail n.The forms porthal , porthall are difficult to account for; perhaps compare hall n.¹ 1. a. A door, gate, doorway, or gateway, of stately or elaborate construction; the entrance to a large or magnificent building, esp. when emphasized in architectural treatment; any door or gate (chiefly poetic). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > stately portalc1400 portail1484 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > large or elaborate portalc1400 portail1484 c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 1036 Vch pane of þat place had þre ȝatez..Þe portalez pyked of rych platez. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1932) III. l. 17349 (MED) To that cyte entre is non But jn tweyne places..and every place hath porttoles tweyne Ful stron[g]lych mad there. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i That man whiche lay dede before the portall or gate of the temple. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) ii. vii. f. 119^v I haue sene his..portall and gates ful of knightes, & not marchauntis. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 239^v He..went straight to the portal of the Duchesse chambre, & knocking at the dore, sayd that the Duke was come. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxx. xxi. 754 The monie they laid downe in the very port-hall or entrie of the Senate house. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 575 Through Heav'n, That open'd wide her blazing Portals . View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 59. ¶5 Erected over two of the Portals of Blenheim House. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 322 The gates of the portal are by tradition said to be the same which St. Ambrose shut against the emperor Theodosius, till he had done penance. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. v. 21 Not a foot has thy portal cross'd. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxi. 76 Fling the portal apart. The bride Waits. 1948 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 July 20/1 A far vaster immigration..began pouring through the city portals. 1992 Where (N.Y.) Dec. 10/1 Even the portal through which you have entered is antique. †b. A space within the doorway of a room, partitioned off by an inner door; the inner door to such a space (sometimes forming a movable piece of furniture). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [noun] > door > doorway > space containing inner door portal1703 1516 Indenture (St. John's Coll. Cambr.) 20 June in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 244 Tene Doors..wyth 2 Portalls, wherof one shall be at the parlour doore and the oter at the great Chamber doore wythin the said College of..oke and waynescotte. 1569 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 155 I will that theas implements,..the benche in the hall, the portall, and the skryne..shall remayne in and withe the howse. 1634 in Sc. Notes & Queries 1st Ser. 4 208 Item ane great aiken wastall..Item ane aiken portell. 1681 in T. Bell Rec. Exercise of Alford (1897) 322 Ane utter chamber with hewen door and windowes..with timber portall. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 229 Portal..was us'd to signifie a little square corner of a Room, shifted off from the rest of the Room by the Wainscot. †c. A lesser gate or entrance; a side entrance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > small or lesser hatchOE wicketa1300 wicket-gate1362 portal1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Portal, a lesser Gate, where there are two of a different Bigness. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1019 Portal, the arch over a door or gate; the framework of the gate; the lesser gate, when there are two of different dimensions at one entrance. 1873 E. E. Hale In his Name viii. 70 A little side portal, which gave entrance to a vestry. d. A natural entrance, as of a cave, a mountain pass, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > means of entrance > natural portal1764 1764 M. Browne Percy-Lodge in Sunday Thoughts (ed. 2) 275 Hollies pale, and dark'ning Yew The Portal keep with solemn View. So look'd the dread Cumæan Cave. 1785 W. Hayley Philos., Hist., & Moral Ess. Old Maids III. 152 Just within the portal of this cave, a miraculous pipe was suspended. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (ed. 2) I. 3 I was reposing in the vast cavern, out of which, from its northern portal, issues the river that winds through our vale. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 230 A river wending towards a portal of black rock. 1933 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 7 July 7/4 The trail will lead to the west portal of the cave, and probably will make possible new explorations of the huge cavern. 1978 Audubon Sept. 109/2 It is at the western portal of the mountains; the foothills roll down into opening country and distant tundra. 2003 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 5 Nov. 2 Divers say the sinkhole..provides a portal to about 18,000 feet of an underground river. e. The entrance to a tunnel; the structural frame forming such an entrance. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > forming entrance to tunnel portal1871 1871 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 28 Apr. 3/2 A resolve..to build a railroad from the west portal of the tunnel to North Adams to connect at the depot there with the Troy & Boston Railroad. 1881 Engineering 25 Mar. 296/3 The geologist of the St. Gothard Tunnel..has been giving careful attention to the variations in the air currents between the two portals at Goeschenen and Airolo. 1909 J. W. Orrock Railroad Struct. iv. 85 The end portals for the tunnel consist of 12″ × 12″ posts..for a distance of 8 feet from the ends, with 12″ × 12″ timbers built over and across the end posts, to form retaining wall on top. 1941 H. W. Richardson & R. S. Mayo Pract. Tunnel Driving xxi. 364 Some kind of parapet over the portal is necessary to catch loose rocks rolling into the cut. 1995 Independent 21 Feb. 2/7 The locomotive had just entered the portals of the tunnels when one of the carriages near the back of the train went off the rails. f. Engineering. A rigid structural frame consisting essentially of two uprights connected at the top by a third member; (originally) such a frame forming the end of a truss bridge. Also called portal bracing, portal frame. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame portal1876 portal bracing1881 portal frame1908 1876 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 5 178 This bill of materials is calculated: chords, latticing, joint and reinforcing plates..85,912 pounds... Struts and portals..6,000 [pounds]. 1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 The portal is to cover double railway lines of normal gauge. 1943 Triumphs of Engin. 109 (caption) Sydney Bridge is designed to bear a load of 11,000 tons... This cross-section is at the bridge portal near the pylon. 1971 Timber Trades Jrnl. 21 Aug. 23/3 After the gale had been blowing for a whole week, the temporary bracing finally gave way and two portals were destroyed. 1986 D. Koontz Strangers ii. v. 379 Those portals..were twenty-six feet high and sixty-four feet wide. They were made of cross-braced two-by-fours rather than steel. g. Archaeology. A feature of a certain type of megalithic burial structure, consisting of upright stones (and sometimes a capstone) in an arrangement variously resembling a doorway or entrance passage. In later use only attributive, as portal dolmen, portal stone, portal tomb, etc. ΚΠ 1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vi. 179 Sometimes we find Stones erected, and others lying horizontally on the tops of them, making as at Stonehenge, &c. so many Portals. 1754 W. Borlase Observ. Antiq. Cornwall iii. vii. 187 In the tenement of Kerris there is an oval Inclosure... At the Southern Termination A stand four rude Pillars about eight feet high, at the foot of which lye some large long stones, which I am apt to think did formerly rest upon these Pillars... I am inclin'd to think..that these Stones-erect were designed to distinguish and dignify the Entrance..and that they were erected like some of the Stones at Stone-Henge in the shape of two rude Portals.] 1877 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 6 160 In many instances there is found a so-called ‘portal’, consisting of two rows of two or three stones each... These portals are never covered with capstones, but in Germany they are, and it is highly probable..that the portals of the hunebedden of Drenthe formerly possessed them too. 1902 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 32 398 The earlier type [of culture] is characterized by segmented megalithic chambers without a passage, but perhaps with a portal. 1951 J. Raftery Prehist. Ireland vii. 100 A secondary capstone is laid across this, giving us the typical Portal Dolmen, which may be open or closed in front. An increase in height of the portal stones, the last remnants of the original ‘horns’, causes the secondary capstone to slope. 1987 New Phytologist 107 217 Court and portal tombs, are usually assigned on the basis of archaeological evidence to the early and late Neolithic periods, respectively. 2003 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. 1 Before the dolmen was bought, it was damaged by tourists standing on top of it... The cracked portal stone was replaced with another from the nearby limestone pavement. h. U.S. Theatre. An opening on to a stage; (also) a false proscenium set immediately behind a permanent proscenium, used to reduce the size of the opening. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > entrance to stage stage-door1761 prompt entrance1879 portal1947 1947 Gloss. Techn. Theatr. Terms (Strand Electr. & Engin. Co.) 23 Portal, German and American terms for pros[cenium] opening. 1959 W. C. Lounsbury Backstage from A to Z 94 Portal, a gate, door, or entrance, usually downstage on either side of the stage. Portals may be scenery constructed for the play, or they may be a permanent part of the proscenium. In many theatres of newer design, portals are built to accommodate spot-lights for sidelighting. 1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 44/1 ‘Gel the lights in the upstage right portal’ are heard shouted across the auditorium. 2003 Entertainm. Design (Nexis) 1 Sept. 8 There is..a round portal, or false proscenium, to represent the world. 2. figurative. Something resembling or suggestive of a portal. ΚΠ a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B2^v The brazen walles framde by Semiramis, carued out like to the portall of the sunne. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 63 As doth the blushing discontented Sunne, From out the fierie portall of the East. View more context for this quotation a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 29/1 Bright Portals of the Sky, Emboss'd with sparkling Stars. 1679 B. Keach Glorious Lover 239 Set a constant guard Upon the portals of the treach'rous heart, Lest of this Jewel thou deceived art. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 81 Issuing from out the Portals of the Morn. 1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 52 Poor mortals, That frequent pass douce Wisdom's door For glaikit Folly's portals. 1862 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles (ed. 7) x. 216 Death, which by the portal of disobedience had found entrance into natures made for immortality. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 24 She gazed With eyes, the moonstone portals to her heart. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 182 A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. 1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 130 Now, as he jauntily enters the portals of Octogenaria, he offers a timely chronicle, Race. †3. A cardiac valve or valve leaflet. Cf. earlier portal adj. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [noun] > valve valve1615 portal1666 tricuspid valve1671 mitral valve1696 mitral1835 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 231 The great vein..hath at its entrance into the heart, certain portals, from their form called valvulæ tricuspides. 1714 Bibliotheca Anatomica III. 34/1 If you..press down with the other Hand the upper Part of the Vein, you shall find that it can by no Means be forced or driven beyond the Valve or Portal. 4. Medicine. The place where a microorganism, parasite, or drug enters or leaves the body. Also: the area of the body where a beam of radiation enters or leaves it. Chiefly in portal of entry, portal of exit. Also called port. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > place of entry or exit portal1695 entry port1901 port1903 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [noun] > place where drug enters or leaves system portal1695 port1903 1695 T. Byfield Short Disc. Small-pox 5 No fear People should burst or dye for want of outlets, every Pore will provide a Portal wide enough, when the Matter is sufficiently rarified from within. 1910 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 24 Sept. 1109/2 We have been led..to view the nasopharynx as the location in the body to be regarded with special suspicion as being the portal of entry of the virus. 1921 Science 5 Aug. 104/1 This is best accomplished when they [sc. parasites] settle down and multipy near some portal of exit. 1931 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 23 May 1756/1 If the portal is of limited area, the lateral scatter [of X-rays] is small. 1973 G. H. Fletcher & N. du V. Tapley in G. H. Fletcher Textbk. Radiotherapy (ed. 2) i. 65/1 With a 22 Mev beam and a single homolateral portal, the skin reaction is minimal on the entrance side and is moderate on the opposite side. 1977 Lancet 8 Jan. 78/1 Disposable devices are now becoming available for prolonged controlled delivery of appropriate drugs at other portals of entry such as the eye and uterus. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Sept. 55/2 HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces—augmenting an immune response at those portals of entry by using..mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection. 5. Computing. Originally: a server or website that provides internet access. Later also: a website or service that provides access to a number of sources of information and facilities, such as a directory of links to other websites, search engines, email, online shopping, etc. More fully portal site. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > network > [noun] > server mainframe1957 host computer1966 server1969 file server1979 portal1990 1990 Re: DECnet Encapsulation in TCP-IP in comp.protocols.tcp-ip (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Nov. DEC used to have a product called an ‘internet portal’ which enveloped TCP/IP within DECnet. 1993 Cu Digest (Electronic text) 5 No. 73 ‘Michael and Steven will sift the wheat from the chaff every week.’.. dogshit's Internet portals, said Eisner, are: dshit@hollywood.edu; and dshit@bevhills.gov. 1997 New Media Age (Nexis) 17 July 2 The changes will see MSN (UK) investing more time, money and effort in its portal site www.uk.msn.com. 1998 Guardian 23 July (Online section) 2/5 As more traffic is filtered through fewer of these catch-all supersites, the easier it becomes for portals to control the Web experience, collecting important data on surfers, like their viewing and buying habits, and personal interests. 2001 Contact May 13/1 The image can either be sent as an email, added to a picture album on Ericsson's mobile internet portal, or stored in the camera. Compounds C1. portal arch n. ΚΠ 1712 W. Goldwin Poet. Descr. Bristol 13 The Southward Range in shelving Breadth descends, A Church with portal Arch the Prospect ends. 1912 Times 3 Oct. 7/7 The deep portal arch of Persia and India has its prototype in the classical exedra common in the Roman bath. 2003 Jrnl. Southwest (Nexis) 22 Mar. 289 The Spanish Islamic tendency to set a portal arch into an enveloping rectangular panel. † portal-capital n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1895 A. Nutt Happy Otherworld vi, in K. Meyer tr. Voy. Bran I. 205 The arched doorway..with its wide valves and portal-capitals of burnished gold. portal door n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > other types of door hall-doorc1275 falling doorc1300 stable doorc1330 vice-door1354 hecka1400 lodge-doorc1400 street door1465 gate-doora1500 portal1516 backdoor1530 portal door1532 side door1535 by-door1542 outer door1548 postern door1551 house door1565 fore-door1581 way-door1597 leaf door1600 folding door1611 clap-door1625 balcony-door1635 out-door1646 anteportc1660 screen door1668 frontish-door1703 posticum1704 side entrance1724 sash-door1726 Venetian door1731 oak1780 jib-door1800 trellis?c1800 sporting door1824 ledge-door1825 through door1827 bivalves1832 swing-door1833 tradesmen's entrance1838 ledged door1851 tradesmen's door?1851 fire door1876 storm door1878 shoji1880 fire door1889 Dutch door1890 patio door1900 stable door1900 ledge(d) and brace(d) door1901 suicide door1925 louvre door1953 1532 in H. M. Paton Accts. Masters of Wks. (1957) I. 107 Gemma bandis to the portall dure of the chalmer within the dusty hall. 1641 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 205 For bands and sneck to the portall doore. 1713 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Glasgow (1908) IV. 506 Making up a broken pend and purple wall and new portall doors, and lyning a purple wall behind the west loft. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 87 Beside the portal doors, Buttress'd from moonlight, stands he. 1989 Cultural Anthropol. 4 354 He has even commissioned the carving and installation of big new portal doors in the cathedral. portal gate n. ΚΠ 1621 R. Brathwait Natures Embassie 77 Which Description he fixed..vpon the Portall gate, where he might of necessitie see his owne impietie as in a glasse transparent. 1830 W. Scott Old Mortality xxiv, in Waverley Novels 356 The portal-gate was broke open, the beams..pulled down and thrown into the river. 2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Nov. h3 Paley is best known for large-scale works created for public spaces throughout the United States—including portal gates to the Renwick Gallery. portal post n. ΚΠ 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos ii. 506 W[ith] rammes and engins falles The portall postes & thresholds vp are throwe[n] & dores of halles. 1907 Daily Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 2 Sept. 8/1 The portal posts for the structure give an idea of what a massive concern the bridge was. 2004 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. (Nexis) 18 Sept. 5 The Star Jasmine is another twining vine that would climb up the portal posts. † portal seat n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1800 R. W. Spencer Beth Gêlert in Poems (1835) 152 Unpleas'd Llewelyn homeward hied, When near the portal-seat, His truant Gêlert he espied Bounding his Lord to greet. † portal way n. Obsolete ΚΠ 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 292 Narrow was the portal way, To one alone fit passage. 1811 A. Liddiard Sgelaighe 4 Now as the wretched peasants stray Beneath the high-arch'd portal way. C2. portal bracing n. Engineering = sense 1f; (also) the technique or practice of using portal frames to give strength and stability. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame portal1876 portal bracing1881 portal frame1908 1881 Trans. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 10 164 Strong top lateral and portal bracing would greatly increase the strength and durability of the bridge. 1908 M. S. Ketchum Design of Highway Bridges vii. 112 Portal bracing is placed at the ends of through bridges in the planes of the end-posts to transfer the wind loads from the upper lateral system to the abutments. 1974 Sci. Amer. Feb. 95/1 The Crystal Palace was..the first [building] in which a light frame was made rigid against wind loads by the technique that came to be known as portal bracing. 2002 Vancouver Province (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 3 June a16 Routes to avoid... Pattullo Bridge, New Westminster. Repairs to the portal bracing following a crane crash some months ago. portal crane n. Engineering a crane mounted on a portal frame, so as to allow the passage of vehicles underneath. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > lifting or hoisting equipment > [noun] > crane > types of quay crane1821 balance-crane1824 well crane1836 water crane1849 jenny1861 jib-crane1873 stacker1875 Titan1876 transfer-elevatora1884 whip-crane1883 Goliath1888 jigger1891 wharf crane1893 floating crane1903 tower crane1906 hammer-headed crane1908 portal crane1908 hammer-head crane1910 luffing crane1913 cherry-picker1945 stacker crane1959 monotower1963 Transtainer1964 portainer1966 1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 (heading) Hydraulic portal crane. 1958 Times Rev. Industry Oct. 20/3 No. 21 Quay at Alexandra Dock has been opened this year after being re-equipped with five 6/3 ton electric portal cranes. 1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 115/1 The Scott kraft-paper mill, with the biggest portal crane in North America. portal frame n. Engineering = sense 1f. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > rigid structural frame portal1876 portal bracing1881 portal frame1908 1908 A. Tolhausen tr. A. Böttcher Cranes vi. 245 The portal or gantry frame..shall be of built-up plates, and shall carry the platform on its top side. 1949 Archit. Rev. 106 287 The mullions in front of the portal frames are bright ultramarine. 1991 Constr. Weekly 18 Sept. 12/4 Construction, being done to a hybrid management contract, will be steel portal frame with brick cladding. portal strut n. Engineering a horizontal member rigidly joining the tops of two uprights, esp. in a portal frame. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports sillc897 sole-tree1527 spur1529 brace1530 rance1574 strut1587 ground pin1632 ground-plate1663 strut-beam1668 wale-piece1739 strutting-beam1753 wale1754 stretcher1774 tie1793 tie-beam1823 strutting1833 lattice frame1838 tie-bolt1838 tie rod1839 brace-rod1844 web1845 box girder1849 plate girder1849 lattice beam1850 lattice girder1852 girder1853 twister1875 under-girder1875 truss-beam1877 raker1880 wind-bracing1890 portal strut1894 stirrup1909 knee-brace1912 tee-beam1930 tee section1963 binder- 1894 W. H. Warren Engin. Constr. xix. 294 The perpendicular distance between the end strut of the top lateral system and the intermediate portal strut. 1938 C. T. Bishop Struct. Design x. 194 Portal struts are used at the ends of through bridges to transmit top-lateral stresses to the abutments. 1998 Civil Engin. Apr. 67/1 Portal struts between the trusses prevented the portal frame gantry from providing the minimum vertical clearance for trucks on the Warren truss. portal-to-portal adj. U.S. relating to or consisting of the time spent on the premises of one's place of work including time spent on essential non-working activities, as changing or washing. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [adjective] > types of payment fallback1895 portal-to-portal1936 incentive1943 straight-time1944 over-award1950 1918 Los Angeles Times 7 Aug. i.3/1 A majority of the strikers were earning from $7.65 to $11.65 a day on contract work. They struck for an eight-hour day from portal to portal of the mines, a pay day twice a month, and a Sunday off on pay once a month.] 1936 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 10 Oct. 1/6 (headline) Eight-hour portal-to-portal working day is also sought in demands. 1943 Times 4 May 5/3 They will earn wages from the time of arrival on the mine premises to the time of departure. This is called in America the ‘portal-to-portal’ system. 1965 McGraw-Hill Dict. Mod. Econ. 385 Proponents of portal-to-portal pay insist that the worker should be paid for the time involved in necessary activities before or after actual on-the-job time on the ground that otherwise the work could not be done. 1991 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 57 214 The Fair Labor Standards Act did long-term damage by establishing a minimum wage and requiring portal-to-portal pay for miners. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). portaln.² Misreading of portas, variant of porteous n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > breviary or office book > [noun] > portable porteousc1390 portiforium1447 portativec1454 portifolium1546 portal1660 portuarya1867 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection v. iv. 255 in Justice Vindicated Popish Catechisms, Missals, Breviaries, Portals, Legends and lives of Saints. 1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 504 The printing Missals, Offices, Lives of Saints, Portals, Primers &c. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2019). portaln.³ Brit. /pɔːˈtɑːl/, U.S. /pɔrˈtɑl/ Inflections: Plural portales Brit. /pɔːˈtɑːlᵻz/, /pɔːˈtɑːlɛz/, U.S. /pɔrˈtɑləs/, /pɔrˈtɑləz/, portals. Forms: 1800s– portal, 1900s– portale, 1900s– portales (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish portal. Etymology: < Spanish portal (plural portales ) porch, portico, doorway, gate, portal (12th cent.) < post-classical Latin portale portal n.¹ In South America and the south-western United States: a veranda, a portico, an arcade. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > portico porcha1382 oriel1478 portico1607 porticus1617 peridrome1623 portice1623 exedra1706 lodge1742 loggia1742 chabutra1827 portal1844 1844 J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies I. 144 The only attempt at anything like architectural compactness and precision, consists in..buildings, whose fronts are shaded with a fringe of portales or corredores. 1892 C. F. Lummis Tramp across Continent 153 Outside, in the long portal, was enough blue, and red, and white corn to feed an army of horses. 1927 South Amer. Nov.–Dec. 181/1 Our hall not being large enough, the portales—a large corridor with arches running down one side—was swept and tastefully decorated. 1973 D. Hamilton Intriguers ix. 59 I..crawled to where I could watch the long porch outside the living room... Around these parts [sc. Arizona], that porch is known as a portal, ma'am. Accent on the last syllable. 1995 New Mexico Apr. 44/2 Antique benches, with or without backs,..grace many local portals. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Portaln.⁴ Brit. /ˈpɔːtl/, U.S. /ˈpɔrdl/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Portal. Etymology: < the name of Wyndham Raymond, Viscount Portal (1885–1949), Minister of Works and Buildings (later Works and Planning) and First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings 1942–4. Now historical. In full Portal house. A steel-framed, prefabricated house of a type proposed in 1944. Also attributive: of or relating to a house of this type. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 1944 Times 17 May 8/4 It will take about six months after approval of the prototype of the Portal prefabricated houses for jigs and tools to be got ready. 1944 Times 5 June 2/4 Mr. C. W. Gibson..said that the Portal House was an example of the tendency to reduce standards of construction and appearance. 1945 Punch 16 May 425/1 My aunt was good for me when I was a child, and will possibly offer me accommodation if I cannot secure a Portal when I go home. 1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 at Portal, Sir Wyndham Raymond He initiated the programme of prefabricated houses which became known as ‘Portal houses’. 1998 G. Sebestyén Construction ii. 49 In Britain the first new systems after 1945 were the Portal House (with pressed steel and plywood), the Aluminium Bungalow.., Arcon and Uni-Seco. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). portaladj. Brit. /ˈpɔːtl/, U.S. /ˈpɔrdl/ Forms: 1600s portall, 1700s– portal. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin portalis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin portalis situated by a gate (late 13th cent.) < classical Latin porta port n.³ + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare portal n.¹ Anatomy and Zoology. †1. Designating a cardiac valve or valve leaflet. Cf. portal n.¹ 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > heart > [adjective] > valve portal1615 mitral1853 tricuspid valve1877 pulmonary1900 valvar1955 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 375 Not farre from the beginning [it] is diuided or slitte into three small but strong portall membranes or values. 2. Of or relating to the portal vein or structures associated with it. Also: of or relating to the portal system of an organ other than the liver. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [adjective] > liver > fissure of portal1648 1648 Case for City-spectacles 9 The Shot had pierc'd the Vena Portall. 1754 S. Mihles tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 453 In many slow or lingering..fevers, small repeated boles..will bring out by day a good deal of the matter lurking in the mesentery and portal system. 1786 tr. A. von Haller First Lines Physiol. II. xxiv. 113 They [sc. the nerves of the liver] accompany the hepatic artery, and, playing about its trunk, are distributed with that and the portal branches throughout the liver [L. circa ejus truncum ludentes, cum ea portarumque vena hepar adeunt]. 1843 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 133 298 Another portion [of blood] intermingled with that collected in the portal vessels is sent to the branchiæ. 1892 Lancet 23 Jan. 193/2 (heading) A case of portal pyæmia. 1908 Lancet 14 Mar. 785/1 (title) Portal obstruction without external evidence of portal caval anastomosis. 1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. xxxi. 823/2 The capillary loops from which the portal vessels originate. 1997 L. C. Towns in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. iv. 48/1 Internal hemorrhoids or esophageal varices..may, thus, indicate blockage of venous drainage to the liver, or so-called portal hypertension. Compounds portal canal n. any of the ramifying connective tissue spaces within the liver containing a branch of each of the portal vein, hepatic artery, and hepatic duct. ΚΠ 1833 F. Kiernan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 720 Of the portal canals. These canals..contain the hepatic ducts, the portal veins, the hepatic arteries, [etc.]. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 840 Slight perilobular cell infiltration in the portal canals. 1984 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 81 2210/2 Necrosis bridging central and portal canals was present. portal circulation n. a portal system of blood vessels; the circulation of blood through such a system. ΚΠ 1842 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 132 63 A trunk is formed in the great portal circulation,..most of the capillaries which supply it lying at a distance from the liver. 1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 259 The portal circulation through the liver is short-circuited. 1994 D. Tulchinsky & A. B. Little Maternal–Fetal Endocrinol. (ed. 2) xii. 206/1 Somatostatin, the tetradecapeptide found widely in the brain and gastrointestinal system, is released by the hypothalamus into the portal circulation to inhibit GH secretion. portal fissure n. = porta hepatis n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > liver > transverse fissure of porta1790 portal fissure1858 porta hepatis1882 1858 H. Gray Anat. 615 The transverse or Portal Fissure is a short but deep fissure..extending transversely across the under surface of the right lobe. 1997 D. R. Shipley Comm. Plutarch's Life of Agesilaos 150 The λοβός is frequently the ‘lobe’, a projection of the liver, an important part of the sacrificial animal for divination; its absence exposes the portal fissure, from which the gall oozes. portal system n. (a) the system of blood vessels consisting of the portal vein with its tributaries from the stomach, intestines, and spleen, and its branches within the liver; (b) (chiefly with distinguishing word) any other system of blood vessels in which blood is conveyed from one capillary network to another. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > system of > specific system portal system1754 1754 S. Mihles tr. A. von Haller Physiol. II. 453 In many slow or lingering..fevers, small repeated boles..will bring out by day a good deal of the matter lurking in the mesentery and portal system. 1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 744 Branches of the hepatic artery and portal vein..must therefore be considered as separate branches of the abdominal portal system. 1974 M. Hildebrand Anal. Vertebr. Struct. xii. 262 In several places in the body (digestive organs, kidneys, hypophysis) blood that has passed a capillary bed elsewhere enters a second capillary bed before reaching the heart. The veins between two capillary networks constitute a portal system. 2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 8160/2 Absorbed iron is bound to circulating transferrin and passes initially through the portal system of the liver. portal vein n. [compare post-classical Latin vena portae (1638 or earlier), vena portarum (1755 in the passage translated in quot. 1765), French veine porte (14th cent. in Old French), and earlier porta n., port-vein n., porter-vein n. at porter n.¹ Compounds] (a) (also hepatic portal vein) the short, wide vein formed by the union of the veins from the stomach, intestines, and spleen, which conveys blood to the liver, where it divides again into branches; cf. earlier porta n. 1; (b) (with distinguishing word) a vein conveying blood between the two capillary networks of any other portal system. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein middle veina1398 portaa1398 saphena1398 funisa1400 sciaticaa1400 guidesc1400 haemorrhoidc1400 salvatellac1400 liver veina1425 median?a1425 mesaraic?a1425 sciatic?a1425 venal artery?a1425 sciat1503 organal vein1523 axillar?1541 weeping vein1543 port-vein1586 lip-vein1598 nose vein1598 sciatic vein1598 cephalic vein1599 hollow vein1605 jugular1615 scapulary1615 subclavian vein1615 umbilical vessel1615 basilica1625 porter-vein1625 neck vein1639 garter-vein1656 matricious vein1656 sacred vein1656 subclavicular1656 subclavial1664 vertebral1718 portal vein1765 cava1809 satellite vein1809 brachial1859 innominate vein1866 precaval1866 postcava1882 precava1882 postcaval1891 Vesalian vein1891 sciatic1892 subcardinal1902 1765 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Aphorisms Boerhaave IX. 197 When the liver..denies a free passage for the blood to flow..by the vena portarum, all the abdominal viscera, which evacuate their venal blood into the said portal vein, are disturbed in their respective actions. 1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 728 In the sheep, portal veins of considerable size resemble the smaller portal veins in the human subject. 1937 J. S. McDowall Handbk. Physiol. & Biochem. (ed. 35) xxxvi. 554 The kidney [of the frog] is then supplied only by the renal portal vein, a vessel which goes to the tubules only. 1988 E. Segal Doctors xxxix. 494 His first ‘real’ assignment was an extremely complex portacaval shunt, a procedure in which the portal vein in the liver is joined to the vena cava inferior. portal venous adj. of or relating to the portal vein. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [adjective] > specific vein organica1400 original1486 basilic?1541 ankle vein1574 sciatical1598 organical1607 basilical1650 subclavicular1656 subclavial1664 saphenal1828 portal venous1833 brachio-cephalic1836 saphenous1840 postcaval1866 precaval1866 tracheloscapular1891 renovascular1902 1833 F. Kiernan in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 754 Portal-venous congestion is of very rare occurrence. 1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 601/1 Other conditions which may lead to the presence of gas in the portal venous system include peritonitis and septicemia. 1997 R. Portanova in R. C. Ward Found. Osteopathic Med. vi. 89/1 The neurohormones enter the portal venous blood and are delivered to the anterior pituitary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1400n.²1660n.³1844n.⁴1944adj.1615
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