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  2. Renal portal system - Wikipedia

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    In lungfish and tetrapods, the renal portal vein is joined by a vein traveling upwards from the abdominal vein, [4] which can bring venous blood from the hind limbs and ventral body wall into the renal portal system, or alternatively, enable blood from the tail and groin to pass into the hepatic portal system, already served by blood from the gut, via the hepatic portal vein, and from the hind ...

  3. Centereach, New York - Wikipedia

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    According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.7 square miles (22.6 km 2), all land. [2]New York State Route 25 (Middle Country Road) passes through the community and is the primary commercial thoroughfare.

  4. Captive portal - Wikipedia

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    A common method is to direct all World Wide Web traffic to a web server, which returns an HTTP redirect to a captive portal. [8] When a modern, Internet-enabled device first connects to a network, it sends out an HTTP request to a detection URL predefined by its vendor and expects an HTTP status code 200 OK or 204 No Content.

  5. Portal vein thrombosis - Wikipedia

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    Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a vascular disease of the liver that occurs when a blood clot occurs in the hepatic portal vein, which can lead to increased pressure in the portal vein system and reduced blood supply to the liver. The mortality rate is approximately 1 in 10.

  6. Parietal reach region - Wikipedia

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    The parietal reach region (PRR) is a region within the posterior parietal cortex of the macaque brain that is stimulated through reaching for an object. The PRR was initially proposed by Andersen and Buneo, [ 1 ] but they just generally explored the idea as postural modulations.

  7. Ventral posteromedial nucleus - Wikipedia

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    The ventral posteromedial nucleus (VPM) is a nucleus within the ventral posterior nucleus of the thalamus and serves an analogous somatosensory relay role for the ascending trigeminothalamic tracts as its lateral neighbour the ventral posterolateral nucleus serves for dorsal column–medial lemniscus pathway 2nd-order neurons.

  8. Steve Raible - Wikipedia

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    An original member of the expansion Seattle Seahawks, Raible was a second round selection in the 1976 NFL draft (59th overall). He played wide receiver for six seasons, from 1976 to 1981, all under head coach Jack Patera.

  9. Planet Labs - Wikipedia

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    First pair of the 28 Planet Labs satellites launched from the ISS via the NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer (2014). Planet Labs was founded in 2010 as Cosmogia by former NASA scientists Chris Boshuizen, Will Marshall, and Robbie Schingler, who teamed up with John Kuolt in 2011 during his studies at Oxford University with a thesis to leverage the processing power of mobile phones to power the avionics ...