| lacuna vasorum | <anatomy> The medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament, for the passage to the femoral vessels; it is separated from the muscular lacuna by the iliopectineal arch. Synonym: lacuna vasorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Angiostrongylus vasorum | A species occurring in the pulmonary artery and, rarely, in the right ventricle of the dog and fox; thrombi may occur in the lungs, and hypertrophy of the heart and liver may result in ascites; affected animals suffer from dyspnea and occasionally may die from cardiac insufficiency. Synonym: Haemostrongylus vasorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vaginae vasorum | Fibrous envelopes ensheathing the arteries with their accompanying veins and sometimes nerves as well. Synonym: sheaths of vessels, vaginae vasorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vasa vasorum | Nutrient blood vessels which supply the walls of large arteries or veins. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Haemostrongylus vasorum | Synonym: Angiostrongylus vasorum. Origin: G. Haima, blood, + strongylos, round (05 Mar 2000) |
| vascular lacuna | <anatomy> The medial compartment beneath the inguinal ligament, for the passage to the femoral vessels; it is separated from the muscular lacuna by the iliopectineal arch. Synonym: lacuna vasorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cartilage lacuna | A cavity within the matrix of cartilage, occupied by a chondrocyte. Synonym: cartilage space. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebral lacuna | A small circumscribed loss of brain tissue caused by occlusion of one of the small penetrating arteries. Synonym: lacuna cerebri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's lacuna | One of a number of little recesses in the mucous membrane of the spongy urethra into which empty the ducts of the urethral glands. Synonym: lacuna urethralis, Morgagni's lacuna. (05 Mar 2000) |
| muscular lacuna | The lateral compartment beneath the inguinal (Poupart's) ligament, for the passage of the iliopsoas muscle and femoral nerve; it is separated by the iliopectineal arch from the vascular lacuna. Synonym: lacuna musculorum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intervillous lacuna | One of the blood spaces in the placenta into which the chorionic villi project. (05 Mar 2000) |
| osseous lacuna | A cavity in bony tissue occupied by an osteocyte. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trophoblastic lacuna | One of the spaces in the early syncytiotrophoblastic layer of the chorion before the formation of villi; in human embryos maternal blood enters these spaces by the 10th day; with the differentiation of the chorionic villi they become intervillous spaces, sometimes called intervillous lacunae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| urethral lacuna | One of a number of little recesses in the mucous membrane of the spongy urethra into which empty the ducts of the urethral glands. Synonym: lacuna urethralis, Morgagni's lacuna. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lacuna | Small cavity or depression, for example: the space in bone where an osteoblast is found. (18 Nov 1997) |