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retrohepatic

retrohepatic adjective: behind the liver.

Adjective

retrohepatic (not comparable)

  1. Behind the liver
    • The location of the tumor at the interrenal and retrohepatic IVC allowed the tumor to be completely resected en bloc.2015 June 18, Hirofumi Sonoda et al., “Complete Surgical Resection of a Leiomyosarcoma Arising from the Inferior Vena Cava”, in Case Reports in Medicine, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin of retrohepatic

From retro- + hepatic.

Questions about retrohepatic

What does retrohepatic mean?
Retrohepatic means behind the liver.
What part of speech is retrohepatic?
Retrohepatic is an adjective.

Words near retrohepatic in the dictionary

  1. retrogressiveness
  2. retrogressives
  3. retrogressivity
  4. retroguard
  5. retroguards
  6. retrohepatic
  7. retrohilar
  8. retrohippocampal
  9. retrohome
  10. retrohoming
  11. retroilluminate

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