| gang | 1. A going; a course. 2. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves. 3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labour; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows. 4. A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays. 5. [Cf. Gangue. <chemical> The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue. Gang board, or Gang plank. A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on. Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck. Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time. Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below). Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. Gang plank. See Gang board (above). Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above). Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates. Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. Gang tide. See Gang week (below). Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam. Origin: Icel. Gangr a going, gang, akin to AS, D, G, & Dan. Gang a going, Goth. Gaggs street, way. See Gang. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gang-flower | <botany> The common English milkwort (Polygala vulgaris), so called from blossoming in gang week. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ganga | An extract of the flowers of Cannabis sativa (Indian hemp or hashish) which grows in India, Persia, and Arabia. See: cannabis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia | <pathology> A mass of nerve tissue (grey matter) or a group of nerve cell bodies. <anatomy> Also refers to specific groups within the brain or spinal cord (as basal ganglia). Ganglion is the singular of ganglia. (16 Dec 1997) |
| ganglia aorticorenalia | A semidetached portion of the coeliac ganglia, at the origin of each renal artery; contains the sympathetic neurons innervating the vasculature of the kidney. Synonym: ganglia aorticorenalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia cardiaca | Parasympathetic ganglia of the cardiac plexus lying between the arch of the aorta and the bifurcation of the pulmonary artery. Synonym: ganglia cardiaca, Wrisberg's ganglia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia coeliaca | The largest and highest group of prevertebral sympathetic ganglia, located on the superior part of the abdominal aorta, on either side of the origin of the coeliac artery; contains sympathetic neurons whose unmyelinated postganglionic axons innervate the stomach, liver, gallbladder, spleen, kidney, small intestine, and ascending and transverse colon. H Synonym: ganglia coeliaca, semilunar ganglion, solar ganglia, Vieussens' ganglia, Willis' centrum nervosum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia intermedia | Small sympathetic ganglia most commonly found on the communicating branches in the cervical and lumbar region. Synonym: ganglia intermedia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia lumbalia | Four or more ganglia on the medial border of the psoas major muscle on either side; they form, with the sacral and coccygeal ganglia and their interganglionic rami, the abdominopelvic sympathetic trunk. Synonym: ganglia lumbalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia of autonomic plexuses | Autonomic ganglia lying in plexuses of autonomic fibres, e.g., the coeliac and inferior mesenteric ganglia of the sympathetic, and the small parasympathetic ganglia of the myenteric plexus. Synonym: ganglia plexuum autonomicorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia of sympathetic trunk | The clusters of postganglionic neurons located at intervals along the sympathetic trunks, including the superior cervical, middle cervical, and cervicothoracic (stellate) ganglion, the thoracic, lumbar, and sacral ganglia, and the ganglion impar. Synonym: ganglia trunci sympathici, paravertebral ganglia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia pelvina | The parasympathetic ganglia scattered through the pelvic plexus on either side. Synonym: ganglia pelvina, hypogastric ganglia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia phrenica | Several small autonomic ganglia contained in the plexuses accompanying the inferior phrenic arteries. Synonym: ganglia phrenica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia plexuum autonomicorum | Autonomic ganglia lying in plexuses of autonomic fibres, e.g., the coeliac and inferior mesenteric ganglia of the sympathetic, and the small parasympathetic ganglia of the myenteric plexus. Synonym: ganglia plexuum autonomicorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglia renalia | Small scattered sympathetic ganglia along the renal plexus. Synonym: ganglia renalia. (05 Mar 2000) |