| appendage | <anatomy> A structure arising from the surface or extending beyond the tip of another structure. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| appendages of eye | The eyelids, with lashes and eyebrows, lacrimal apparatus, conjunctival sac, and extrinsic muscles of the eyeball. Synonym: organa oculi accessoria, accessory organs, accessory visual apparatus, adnexa oculi, appendages of eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendages of skin | The hairs, nails, and sweat, sebaceous, and mammary glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendages of the foetus | Amnion, yolk sac, and the foetal (chorionic) part of the placenta together with the umbilical cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| atrial appendage | The small projection from each atrium hanging over like a small ear, more marked on the left, with a small cavity of its own. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| auricular appendage | A small congenital skin tag usually located anterior to the tragus of the ear, often called a skin tag; more often unilateral than bilateral. (05 Mar 2000) |
| carcinoma, skin appendage | A malignant tumour of the skin appendages, which include the hair, nails, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, and the mammary glands. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vermiform appendage | A wormlike intestinal diverticulum extending from the blind end of the caecum; it varies in length and ends in a blind extremity. Synonym: appendix vermiformis, appendix ceci, processus vermiformis, vermiform appendage, vermiform process, vermix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vesicular appendage | A small fluid-filled cyst attached by a slender stalk to the fimbriated end of the uterine tube; a vestigial remnant of the embryonic mesonephric duct. Synonym: appendix vesiculosa, Morgagni's hydatid, morgagnian cyst, stalked hydatid, vesicular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| right auricular appendage | The small conical projection from the right atrium of the heart. Synonym: auricula dextra, right auricular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neoplasms, adnexal and skin appendage | Neoplasms composed of sebaceous or sweat gland tissue or tissue of other skin appendages. The concept does not refer to neoplasms located in the sebaceous or sweat glands or in the other skin appendages. (12 Dec 1998) |
| drumstick appendage | An appendage of the nucleus that represents the inactive heterochromatic X chromosome seen in 3% of the neutrophil leukocytes of human females. See: sex chromatin, lyonization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| testicular appendage | A vesicular nonpedunculated structure attached to the cephalic pole of the testis; a vestige of the cephalic end of the paramesonephric (mullerian) duct. Synonym: appendix testis, appendix of the testis, nonpedunculated hydatid, ovarium masculinum, sessile hydatid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| torsion of appendage | Torsion of testis or epididymis (05 Mar 2000) |
| epiploic appendage | A finger-like projection of fat attached to the colon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| left auricular appendage | The small conical projection from the left atrium of the heart. Synonym: auricula sinistra, left auricular appendage. (05 Mar 2000) |