NOUN
- a vein formed by several small veins on the surface of the spleen; joins the superior mesenteric to form the portal vein
How To Use splenic vein In A Sentence
- The body and tail extend along the splenic vein toward the splenic hilum.
- When thrombosis involves the portal or splenic veins the initial presentation may be variceal bleeding, splenomegaly, or ascites.
- The splenic vein is not invested in a common sheath with the artery - it is retropancreatic and never tortuous.
- The hilum of the spleen contains the splenic vein, but the artery is out of the plane of section.
- The left renal may anastomose with the splenic vein and receive lumbar veins.
- The results showed that stable thrombocytopenia, erythropenia and splenomegaly were presented in the dogs with splenic vein ligation, and the spleen was eligible for deploying RFA.
