| Meyer's cartilages | <anatomy> The anterior sesamoid cartilage's at the anterior attachments of the vocal ligaments. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| accessory nasal cartilages | Variable small plates of cartilage located in the interval between the greater alar and lateral nasal cartilages. Synonym: cartilagines nasales accessoriae, sesamoid cartilages of nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| branchial cartilages | Cartilage's developing within the vertebrate or embryonic branchial arches; they form the cartilaginous viscerocranium. Synonym: pharyngeal cartilages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cartilages of larynx | See: thyroid cartilage, cricoid cartilage, arytenoid cartilage, cuneiform cartilage, triticeal cartilage, corniculate cartilage, sesamoid cartilage of larynx, epiglottic cartilage. Synonym: cartilagines laryngis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cartilages of nose | See: lateral cartilage of nose, greater alar cartilage, nasal septal cartilage, cartilago vomeronasalis, lesser alar cartilages, accessory nasal cartilages. Synonym: cartilagines nasi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pharyngeal cartilages | Cartilage's developing within the vertebrate or embryonic branchial arches; they form the cartilaginous viscerocranium. Synonym: pharyngeal cartilages. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huschke's cartilages | Two horizontal cartilaginous rods at the edge of the cartilaginous septum of the nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sesamoid cartilages of nose | Variable small plates of cartilage located in the interval between the greater alar and lateral nasal cartilages. Synonym: cartilagines nasales accessoriae, sesamoid cartilages of nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ear cartilages | Cartilages of the auricle (pinna) and the external acoustic meatus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tracheal cartilages | The 16 to 20 incomplete rings of hyaline cartilage forming the skeleton of the trachea; the rings are deficient posteriorly for from one-fifth to one-third of their circumference. Synonym: cartilagines tracheales, tracheal ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| laryngeal cartilages | The nine cartilages of the larynx, including the cricoid, thyroid and epiglottic, and two each of arytenoid, corniculate and cuneiform. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lesser alar cartilages | 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) |
| Meyer, Adolf | <person> U.S. Psychiatrist. Lived: 1866-1950. See: Meyer-Archambault loop. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Meyer-Archambault loop | The fibres of the visual radiation that loop around the tip of the temporal horn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Meyer-Betz disease | Excretion of myoglobin in the urine; results from muscle degeneration, which releases myoglobin into the blood; occurs in certain types of trauma (crush syndrome), advanced or protracted ischemia of muscle, or as a paroxysmal process of unknown aetiology. Synonym: idiopathic paroxysmal rhabdomyolysis, Meyer-Betz disease, Meyer-Betz syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Meyer-Betz, Friedrich | <person> 20th century German physician. See: Meyer-Betz disease, Meyer-Betz syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |