Definition of Portas

1. portesse [n -ES] - See also: portesse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Portas

portaled
portaloo
portaloos
portals
portamenti
portamento
portamentos
portance
portances
portapack
portapacks
portapak
portapaks
portapotties
portapotty
portas (current term)
portases
portate
portation
portative
portato
portcluse
portcluses
portcrayon
portcrayons
portcullis
portcullises
porte-cochere
porte-monnaie
porte cochère

Literary usage of Portas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"The vena portas receives the gastric and cystic veins ; the latter vein sometimes terminates in the right branch of the vena Fig. 343. ..."

2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"The branches of the biliary ducts accompany those of the vena portas as far as the interlobular spaces, where they again branch off, forming a network of ..."

3. Publications by English Historical Society (1848)
"... quod dux exercitus sui in introitu portas bore- alis percussus occubuit, et pluribus interfectis ipse consul retrocedere compulsus est : cives igitur ..."

4. Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His by Abraham Coles, Ezra Mundy Hunt (1892)
"... and I am His; He feeds among the lilies, pure He is: On the chaste pillow of His loving breast, I'll lay my weary head and nightly rest. portas VESTRAS ..."

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