revehent

English

Adjective

revehent (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Carrying away from an organ or structure (towards the heart).
   • 1929, Frederick Randolph Bailey, Adam Marion Miller, Text-book of Embryology, page 231:

     After birth, when the placental blood is cut off, blood is distributed in the liver by branches of the portal vein, which represent the advehent hepatic veins; it is collected again by branches which unite to form the revehent hepatic veins, or hepatic veins proper, and the latter open into the inferior vena cava.

Antonyms

• advehent

Latin

Verb

revehent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of revehō