portal

A website that brings information and services together and helps you access them.

• Log in to the student portal.
• The portal lets patients book appointments.
• Employees can find their pay records on the company portal.

Similar words: gateway, website

Common phrases: web portal, student portal, online portal, internet portal

An entrance or a way to enter a place, experience, or world of knowledge.

• They entered through a stone portal.
• The arch formed a portal to the garden.
• A glowing portal opened before the travelers.

How to use it: a portal to something (Books can be a portal to another world.)

Similar words: entrance, gateway, doorway

Common phrases: portal to something, stone portal, through the portal

Related to the area where blood vessels enter the liver, or the blood flowing through them.

• Blood reaches the liver through the portal vein.
• The scan showed increased portal pressure.
• The surgeon checked portal blood flow during the operation.

Common phrases: portal vein, portal hypertension, portal circulation