| Luschka's cartilage | A small cartilaginous nodule sometimes found in the anterior portion of the vocal cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| foramen of Luschka | One of the two lateral openings of the fourth ventricle into the subarachnoid space at the cerebellopontine angle. Synonym: apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti, foramen lateralis ventriculi quarti, foramen of Key-Retzius, foramen of Luschka, Retzius' foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka, Hubert | <person> German anatomist, 1820-1875. See: Luschka's bursa, Luschka's cartilage, Luschka's ducts, Luschka's gland, Luschka's cystic glands, Luschka's joints, Luschka's ligaments, Luschka's sinus, Luschka's tonsil, foramen of Luschka. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's bursa | <anatomy> A cystic notochordal remnant found inconstantly in the posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the lower end of the pharyngeal tonsil. Synonym: bursa pharyngea, Luschka's bursa, Tornwaldt's cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's cystic glands | Small, mucous, tubuloalveolar glands in the mucosa of the larger bile ducts and especially in the neck of the gallbladder. Synonym: glandulae mucosae biliosae, Luschka's cystic glands, Theile's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's ducts | Glandlike tubular structures in the wall of the gallbladder, especially in the part covered with peritoneum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's gland | Former name for corpus coccygeum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's joints | Small synovial joint's between adjacent lateral lips of the bodies of the lower cervical vertebrae. Synonym: Luschka's joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's ligaments | <anatomy> Fibrous bands that pass from the pericardium to the sternum. Synonym: ligamenta sternopericardiaca, Lannelongue's ligaments, Luschka's ligaments. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luschka's tonsil | A collection of more or less closely aggregated lymphoid nodules on the posterior wall and roof of the nasopharynx, the hypertrophy of which constitutes the morbid condition called adenoids. Synonym: tonsilla pharyngealis, tonsilla adenoidea, Luschka's gland, Luschka's tonsil, third tonsil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory cartilage | A sesamoid cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| accessory quadrate cartilage | The two to four cartilaginous plates of the wing of the nose posterior to the greater alar cartilage. Synonym: cartilagines alares minores, accessory quadrate cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alisphenoid cartilage | The cartilage in the embryo from which the greater wing of the sphenoid bone is developed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| annular cartilage | <anatomy> The lower most of the laryngeal cartilages, may be palpated just below the thyroid prominence Adjacent the cricoid cartilage and the first tracheal ring is the cricothyroid membrane, a site used for rapid emergency airway access (cricothyroidotomy). (13 Nov 1997) |
| apex of arytenoid cartilage | The pointed upper end of the cartilage which supports the corniculate cartilage and the aryepiglottic fold. Synonym: apex cartilaginis arytenoideae. (05 Mar 2000) |