| winged catheter | A soft rubber catheter with little flaps at each side of the beak to retain it in the bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| winged | 1. Furnished with wings; transported by flying; having winglike expansions. 2. Soaring with wings, or as if with wings; hence, elevated; lofty; sublime. "How winged the sentiment that virtue is to be followed for its own sake." (J. S. Harford) 3. Swift; rapid. "Bear this sealed brief with winged haste to the lord marshal." 4. Wounded or hurt in the wing. 5. <botany> Furnished with a leaflike appendage, as the fruit of the elm and the ash, or the stem in certain plants; alate. 6. Represented with wings, or having wings, of a different tincture from the body. 7. Fanned with wings; swarming with birds. "The winged air darked with plumes." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| winged scapula | <anatomy> An outward prominence of the scapula caused by disruption of its nerves or muscles. (27 Sep 1997) |
| hand-winged | <zoology> Having wings that are like hands in the structure and arrangement of their bones; said of bats. See Cheiroptera. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sack-winged | <zoology> Having a peculiar pouch developed near the front edge of the wing; said of certain bats of the genus Saccopteryx. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scale-winged | <zoology> Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scaly-winged | <zoology> Scale-winged. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheath-winged | <zoology> Having elytra, or wing cases, as a beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spur-winged | <zoology> Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. Spur-winged goose, an Old World plover (Hoplopterus spinosus) having a sharp spur on the bend of the wing. It inhabits Northern Africa and the adjacent parts of Asia and Europe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lace-winged | <zoology> Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acorn-tipped catheter | A catheter used in ureteropyelography to occlude the ureteral orifice and prevent backflow from the ureter during and following the injection of an opaque medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angiography catheter | A thin-walled tube suitable for percutaneous puncture and powered injection of contrast media for radiography; catheter diameter is measured on the French scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balloon catheter | A catheter used in arterial embolectomy or to float into the pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balloon-tip catheter | A tube with a balloon at its tip that can be inflated or deflated without removal after installation; the balloon may be inflated to facilitate passage of the tube through a blood vessel (propelled by the bloodstream) or to occlude the vessel in which the tube alone would allow free flow; such catheter's are used to enter the pulmonary artery to facilitate haemodynamic measurements or to enter arteries and then remove them while inflated to withdraw clots (embolectomy catheter). See: Swan-Ganz catheter. Synonym: Fogarty catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bicoudate catheter | Catheter bicoude, an elbowed catheter with a double bend. Origin: bi + Fr. Coude, bent (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bozeman-Fritsch catheter | A slightly curved double-channel uterine catheter with several openings at the tip. (05 Mar 2000) |