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middle hepatic veins (medicine) and Adjuvant (medicine)


middle hepatic veins (medicine)


middle hepatic veins
Veins draining the central portion of the liver (the superior anterior segment [VIII] and the left side of the inferior anterior segment [V] of the right lobe and the medial segment [IV] of the left lobe) which join to form a trunk that merges with that of the left hepatic veins about 90% of the time prior to entering the left side of the inferior vena cava.

Synonym: venae hepaticae mediae.


Adjuvant (medicine)


adjuvant


1. <pharmacology> A substance that, when added to a medicine, speeds or improves its action which aids another, such as an auxiliary remedy

2. <immunology> A substance added to a vaccine to improve the immune response so that less vaccine is needed to produce a non-specific stimulator (for example, BCG vaccine) of the immune response.

Origin: L. Adjuvans = aiding