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Anatomy
| Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Alar | Pertaining to having wings, wing-like or wing-shaped. | |
| Anastomosis | A cross-connection between adjacent channels, tubes, fibers, or other parts of a network. | |
| Aperture | An opening, hole, or gap. | Nasal aperture, frontomaxillary aperture |
| Articulation | A jointed state or formation; a joint. | Hip, elbow, shoulder |
| Cecum | Latin for blind end. | Part of the colon |
| Corona | A crown or crown like structure. | |
| Duct | A channel or tube for conveying something in particular. | Parotid duct, nasolacrimal duct, comer-nasal duct. |
| Epiploic/ Omentum | From Greek epiploon. Latin omentum to float upon. | The omentum floats on the abdominal viscera |
| Fascia | A thin sheath of fibrous tissue enclosing a muscle or other organ. | |
| Fissure | A long narrow opening between bones. | Superior orbital fissure, inferior orbital fissure. |
| Fold | Something flexible and relatively flat bent over on itself so that one part of it covers another. | Vocal fold, vestibular fold |
| Gyrus | A ridge of fold between two clefts on the cerebral surface of the brain. | |
| Structure in the nose, sphenoid, sacrum. | ||
| Arterio-arterial anastomosis, Veno-venous anastomosis, arterio-venous anastomosis | ||
| Fibers passing from the internal capsule to every part of the cerebra, cortex. Investing layer of radially elongated follicle cells surrounding the soma pellucide of the ovumn; it accompanied the locate during ovulation. | ||
| Rectus sheath, myofascia system | ||
| Broca’s gyrus | ||
| Hiatus | A pause or gap in a sequence, series process or structure. | Esophageal hiatus |
| Membrane | A pliable sheet-like structure acting as a boundary, lining, or partition in an organism. | Mucous membranes, cutaneous membrane. |
| Network | A group or system of interconnected people or things. | |
| Opening | An aperture or gap, especially one allowing access. | |
| Osteo | Referring to bone | Osteoarthritis, osteotomy. |
| Plexus | An intricate lattice-like network or web-like formation. Typically nerves or veins and artistries. | (major) cervical plexus, brachial plexus, lumbar plexus, sacral plexus |
| Process | Is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from larger bone (see prominence). | Mammillary process, assessors processes of a lumbar vertebra. |
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