| Gilchrist's disease | <disease> A fungal infection caused by Blastomyces dermatitidis. This rare fungal infection may produce inflammatory lesion of the skin or lungs or present as a disseminated disease to the skin, lungs, bones, liver, spleen and central nervous system. Uncommon unless patient is immunocompromised (AIDS). (27 Sep 1997) |
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| Gilchrist's mycosis | An obsolete term for blastomycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilchrist, Thomas | <person> U.S. Physician, 1862-1927. See: Gilchrist's disease, Gilchrist's mycosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilford, Hastings | <person> English physician, 1861-1941. See: Hutchinson-Gilford disease, Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gill | A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream. Origin: Icel. Gil. 1. <anatomy> An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia. "Fishes perform respiration under water by the gills." (Ray) Gills are usually lamellar or filamentous appendages, through which the blood circulates, and in which it is exposed to the action of the air contained in the water. In vertebrates they are appendages of the visceral arches on either side of the neck. In invertebrates they occupy various situations. 2. <botany> The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom. 3. <zoology> The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle. 4. The flesh under or about the chin. 5. One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fibre or wool into fewer parallel filaments. [Prob. So called from F. Aiguilles, needles] Gill arches, Gill bars. <anatomy> Horny filaments, or progresses, on the inside of the branchial arches of fishes, which help to prevent solid substances from being carried into gill cavities. Origin: Dan. Giaelle, gelle; akin to Sw. Gal, Icel. Gjolnar gills; cf. AS. Geagl, geahl, jaw. 1. A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl. "Each Jack with his Gill." 2. <botany> The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); called also gill over the ground, and other like names. 3. Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy. Gill ale. Ale flavored with ground ivy. <botany> Alehoof. Origin: Abbrev. From Gillian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gill arch skeleton | Cartilages associated with the visceral portion of the embryonic mammalian chondrocranium, representing the gill arch (branchial) skeletons as seen in shark-type fishes; they are the primordia of Meckel's cartilage, the styloid, hyoid, cricoid, thyroid, and arytenoid cartilages, and the auditory ossicles. See: branchial arches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gill clefts | A bilateral series of slitlike openings into the pharynx through which water is drawn by aquatic animals; in the walls of the cleft's are the vascular gill filaments that take up oxygen from the water passing through the cleft's; sometimes loosely applied to the branchial ectodermal grooves of mammalian embryos, which are imperforate, rudimentary homologues of complete gill clefts. Synonym: gill clefts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilles de la Tourette's disease | <syndrome> Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present with tics occurring many times a day, nearly daily, over a period of more than one year. The onset is before age 18 and the disturbance is not due to direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. The disturbance causes marked distress or significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. (dsm-IV, 1994) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome | <syndrome> Both multiple motor and one or more vocal tics present with tics occurring many times a day, nearly daily, over a period of more than one year. The onset is before age 18 and the disturbance is not due to direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. The disturbance causes marked distress or significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. (dsm-IV, 1994) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gilles de la Tourette, Georges | <person> French physician, 1857-1904. See: Gilles de la Tourette's disease, Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome, Tourette's disease, Tourette syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gillette's suspensory ligament | Longitudinal fibre of the oesophagus that attaches to the posterior aspect of the cricoid cartilage of the larynx. Synonym: tendo cricoesophageus, Gillette's suspensory ligament, suspensory ligament of oesophagus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gillette, Eugene | <person> French surgeon, 1836-1886. See: Gillette's suspensory ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilliam's operation | An operation for retroversion of the uterus by suturing round ligaments to abdominal wall fascia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilliam, David Tod | <person> U.S. Gynecologist, 1844-1923. See: Gilliam's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gillian | A girl; especially, a wanton; a gill. Origin: OE. Gillian, a woman's name, for Julian, Juliana. Cf. Gill a girl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |