| galea | 1. <botany> The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower. 2. <surgery> A kind of bandage for the head. 3. Headache extending all over the head. 4. <paleontology> A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell. 5. <zoology> The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects. Origin: L, a helmet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| galea aponeurotica | <anatomy> A fibrous sheet or tendonous material which attaches the frontalis muscle to the occipitalis muscle over the skull. (27 Sep 1997) |
| galeated | 1. Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet. 2. <biology> Helmeted; having a helmetlike part, as a crest, a flower, etc.; helmet-shaped. Origin: L. Galeatus, p.p. Of galeare helmet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Galeati | Domenico, Italian physician, 1686-1775. See: Galeati's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Galeati's glands | The tubular glands in the mucous membrane of the small and large intestines. Synonym: glandulae intestinales, Galeati's glands, intestinal follicles, Lieberkuhn's crypts, Lieberkuhn's follicles, Lieberkuhn's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| galeatomy | Incision of the galea aponeurotica. Origin: Galea + G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| Galeazzi | Riccardo, Italian surgeon, 1886-1952. See: Galeazzi's fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| galeazzi fracture | <radiology> Fracture of the radius at the junction of the middle and distal thirds, with associated subluxation of the distal ulna see: forearm fractures (12 Dec 1998) |
| Galeazzi's fracture | <orthopaedics> A fracture of the forearm characterised by fracture of the shaft of the radius with dislocation of the distal radio-ulnar joint. (27 Sep 1997) |