| Killian's bundle | Origin, outer surfaces of thyroid (thyropharyngeal part) and cricoid (cricopharyngeal part, musculus cricopharyngeus; superior or upper oesophageal sphincter muscle) cartilages; insertion, pharyngeal raphe in the posterior portion of wall of pharynx; action, narrows lower part of pharynx in swallowing, the cricopharyngeal part has a sphincteric function for the oesophagus, allowing some voluntary control of eructation and reflux; nerve supply, pharyngeal plexus. Synonym: musculus constrictor pharyngis inferior, cricopharyngeus muscle, laryngopharyngeus, musculus laryngopharyngeus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Killian's operation | <procedure, surgery> An operation for frontal sinus disease in which the entire anterior wall is removed and the mucous membrane is curetted away. The ethmoid cells are scraped out through an opening in the nasal process of the maxillary bone, and the upper wall of the orbit is removed as well. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Killian's triangle | <anatomy> The triangular-shaped area of the cervical oesophagus bordered by the oblique fibres of the inferior constrictor muscle of the pharynx and the transverse fibres of the cricopharyngeus muscle through which Zenker's diverticulum occurs, and the A-V nodal triangle between the coronary sinus orifice and the ventricular crest. Synonym: laimer triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Killian, Gustav | <person> German laryngologist, 1860-1921. See: Killian's bundle, Killian's operation, Killian's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pallister-killian syndrome | <syndrome> A condition with multiple malformations at birth and mental retardation due to isochromosome 12p mosaicism (an abnormal chromosome 12 in some cells). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| syndrome, pallister-killian | Condition with multiple malformations at birth and mental retardation due to isochromosome 12p mosaicism (an abnormal chromosome 12 in some cells). (12 Dec 1998) |