| Hueck's ligament | The network of fibres (pectinate ligaments) at the iridocorneal angle between the anterior chamber of the eye and the venous sinus of the sclera; it contains spaces between the fibres that are involved in drainage of the aqueous humor, and is composed of two portions: the corneoscleral part, the part attached to the sclera, and the uveal part, the part attached to the iris. Synonym: reticulum trabeculare sclerae, Gerlach's valvula, Hueck's ligament, ligamentum annulare bulbi, pectinate ligaments of iridocorneal angle, pillar of iris, trabecular meshwork, trabecular network, trabecular zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Hueck, Alexander | <person> German anatomist, 1802-1842. See: Hueck's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Huet, G | <person> Dutch physician, *1879. See: Pelger-Huet nuclear anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter's manoeuvre | <technique> Pressing the patient's tongue downward and forward with the left forefinger in passing a stomach tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter's sign | <clinical sign> In a case of fracture, the vibration expected on tapping the bone is not transmitted when tissue intervenes between the fractured parts of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueter, Karl | <person> German surgeon, 1838-1882. See: Hueter's manoeuvre, Hueter's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soil hue | A characteristic of colour related to one of the main spectral colours (red, yellow, green, blue or purple), or various combinations of these principle colours, one of the three variables of colour, each colour chart in the Munsell Soil Colour Charts (Kollmorgen Corporation 1975) represents a specific hue. (09 Oct 1997) |
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