| basket | 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . Woven of the flexile willow." 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. 3. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. Basket fish, a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, especially. T. Ephemeraeformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. Origin: Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| basket cell | Cerebellar neurons with many small dendritic branches that enclose the cell bodies of adjacent Purkinje cells in a basket like array. (18 Nov 1997) |
| basketball | A competitive team sport played on a rectangular court having a raised basket at each end. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stone basket | An instrument passed through an endoscope to capture and extract urinary calculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| flower basket of Bochdalek | Part of the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle protruding through Luschka's foramen and resting on the dorsal surface of the glossopharyngeal nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |