| resorption lacunae | Tiny depressions, pits, or irregular grooves in bone that is being resorbed by osteoclasts. Synonym: resorption lacunae. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Howship's lacunae | Tiny depressions, pits, or irregular grooves in bone that is being resorbed by osteoclasts. Synonym: resorption lacunae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lacunae laterales | Lateral expansions of the superior sagittal sinus of the dura mater, often increasing in width with advancing age until, in the very old, they may extend two centimeters lateral to the midline; the endothelium-lined lumen of the lacunae are usually reduced to a spongelike labyrinth by numerous arachnoid granulations and dural trabeculae. Synonym: lacunae laterales, lateral lacunae, lateral lakes, parasinoidal sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral lacunae | Lateral expansions of the superior sagittal sinus of the dura mater, often increasing in width with advancing age until, in the very old, they may extend two centimeters lateral to the midline; the endothelium-lined lumen of the lacunae are usually reduced to a spongelike labyrinth by numerous arachnoid granulations and dural trabeculae. Synonym: lacunae laterales, lateral lacunae, lateral lakes, parasinoidal sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral venous lacunae | Lateral expansions of the superior sagittal sinus of the dura mater, often increasing in width with advancing age until, in the very old, they may extend two centimeters lateral to the midline; the endothelium-lined lumen of the lacunae are usually reduced to a spongelike labyrinth by numerous arachnoid granulations and dural trabeculae. Synonym: lacunae laterales, lateral lacunae, lateral lakes, parasinoidal sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Morgagni, Giovanni | <person> Italian anatomist and pathologist, 1682-1771. See: morgagnian cyst, Morgagni's appendix, Morgagni's cartilage, Morgagni's caruncle, Morgagni's cataract, Morgagni's columns, Morgagni's concha, Morgagni's crypts, Morgagni's disease, Morgagni's foramen, Morgagni's fossa, Morgagni's fovea, Morgagni's frenum, Morgagni's globules, Morgagni's humor, Morgagni's hydatid, Morgagni's lacuna, Morgagni's liquor, Morgagni's nodule, Morgagni's prolapse, Morgagni's retinaculum, Morgagni's sinus, Morgagni's spheres, Morgagni's syndrome, Morgagni's tubercle, Morgagni's valves, Morgagni's ventricle, Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome, frenulum of Morgagni. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's appendix | <anatomy> An inconstant narrow lobe of the thyroid gland that arises from the upper border of the isthmus and extends upward, sometimes as far as the hyoid bone; it marks the point of continuity with the thyroglossal duct. Synonym: lobus pyramidalis glandulae thyroideae, Lallouette's pyramid, Morgagni's appendix, pyramid of thyroid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's cartilage | A small nonarticulating rod of elastic cartilage in the aryepiglottic fold anterolateral and somewhat superior to the corniculate cartilage. Synonym: cartilago cuneiformis, Morgagni's cartilage, Morgagni's tubercle, Wrisberg's cartilage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's caruncle | The portion of the prostate lying between the urethra and the ejaculatory ducts; indistinct unless hypertrophied. Synonym: lobus medius prostatae, Morgagni's caruncle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's cataract | A hypermature cataract in which the nucleus gravitates within the capsule. Synonym: sedimentary cataract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's columns | A number of vertical ridges in the mucous membrane of the upper half of the anal canal formed as the caliber of the canal is sharply reduced from that of the rectal ampulla. Synonym: columnae anales, Morgagni's columns, rectal columns. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's concha | The upper thin, spongy, bony plate with curved margins, part of the ethmoidal labyrinth, projecting from the lateral wall of the nasal cavity and separating the superior meatus from the sphenoethmoidal recess, the above bony plate and its thick mucoperiosteum, which is less vascular than that of the middle and inferior conchae. Synonym: concha nasalis superior, Morgagni's concha, superior turbinated bone, turbinated body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's crypts | The grooves between the anal columns. Synonym: Morgagni's sinus. Pockets or crypts in the columnar zone of the anal canal between the anocutaneous line and the anorectal line; the sinuses give the mucosa a scalloped appearance. Synonym: sinus anales, anal crypts, Morgagni's crypts, rectal sinuses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni's disease | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |