| commissural myelotomy | Section of the midline transverse fibres of the spinal cord for the treatment of intractable pain. Synonym: commissural myelotomy, commissurotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bischof's myelotomy | Longitudinal incision of the spinal cord through the lateral column for treatment of spasticity of the lower extremities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| midline myelotomy | Section of the midline transverse fibres of the spinal cord for the treatment of intractable pain. Synonym: commissural myelotomy, commissurotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commissural | Relating to a commissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commissural cell | A neuron whose axon passes to the opposite side of the neuraxis. Synonym: heteromeric cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commissural cheilitis | Inflammation and fissuring radiating from the commissures of the mouth secondary to predisposing factors such as lost vertical dimension in denture wearers, nutritional deficiencies, atopic dermatitis, or Candida albicans infection. Synonym: angular stomatitis, commissural cheilitis, perleche. (05 Mar 2000) |
| commissural fibres | Nerve fibre's crossing the midline and connecting two corresponding parts or regions of the nervous system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myelotomy | Incision of the spinal cord. Origin: myelo-+ G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| T myelotomy | Midline myelotomy with lateral cuts into the anterior horns. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior part of anterior commissure of brain | The anterior part of the anterior or rostral commissure of the brain. Synonym: pars anterior commissurae rostralis, pars anterior commissurae anterioris cerebri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute anterior poliomyelitis | Inflammation of the anterior cornua of the spinal cord; an acute infectious disease caused by the poliomyelitis virus and marked by fever, pains, and gastroenteric disturbances, followed by a flaccid paralysis of one or more muscular groups, and later by atrophy. Synonym: acute atrophic paralysis, myogenic paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alpha cells of anterior lobe of hypophysis | Acidophil cell's that constitute about 35% of the cell's of the anterior lobe. There are two varieties: one that elaborates somatotropin, another that elaborates prolactin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior | <anatomy> Toward the front or in front of. (27 Sep 1997) |
| anterior ampullar nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A branch of the utriculoampullar nerve that supplies the crista ampullaris of the anterior saemicircular duct. Synonym: nervus ampullaris anterior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior antebrachial nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A branch of the median arising in elbow region, running on interosseous membrane, supplying the flexor pollicis longus, part of flexor digitorum profundus and the pronator quadratus muscles, as well as radiocarpal and intercarpal joints. Synonym: nervus interosseus anterior, ramus profundus nervi radialis, nervus antebrachii anterior, anterior antebrachial nerve, volar interosseous nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |