| transverse facial artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, superficial temporal; distribution, parotid gland, parotid duct, masseter muscle, and overlying skin; anastomoses, infraorbital and buccal branches of maxillary, and buccal and masseteric branches of facial. Synonym: arteria transversa faciei. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| transverse facial fracture | A complex fracture in which the facial bones are separated from the cranial bones. Synonym: Le Fort III craniofacial dysjunction, Le Fort III fracture, transverse facial fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse facial vein | <anatomy, vein> A tributary of the superficial temporal or retromandibular veins, anastomosing with the facial vein. Synonym: vena transversa faciei, transverse vein of face. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fasciculi | The transversely directed fibres in the distal portions of the palmar and plantar aponeuroses. Synonym: transverse fasciculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fissure of cerebellum | The cleft caused by the protrusion of the anterior lobe of the cerebellum over the superior and middle cerebellar peduncles. Synonym: fissura transversa cerebelli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fissure of cerebrum | The triangular space between the corpus callosum and fornix above and the dorsal surface of the thalamus below, which is bounded laterally by the choroid fissure of the lateral ventricle, lined by pia mater, and opens caudally into the cistern of the great cerebral vein of the subarachnoid space. Synonym: fissura transversa cerebri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fissure of the lung | The deep fissure that separates the upper and middle lobes of the right lung. Synonym: fissura horizontalis pulmonis dextri, horizontal fissure of right lung, minor fissure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse foramen | Foramen processus transversus. Synonym: foramen processus transversi, foramen transversarium, foramen vertebroarterialis, foramen of transverse process, vertebroarterial foramen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fornix | The triangular subcallosal plate of commissural fibres resulting from the converging of the right and left fornix bundles which exchange numerous fibres and which curve back in the contralateral fornix to end in the hippocampus of the opposite side. Synonym: commissura hippocampi, commissure of fornix, delta fornicis, hippocampal commissure, psalterium, transverse fornix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse fracture | A fracture the line of which forms a right angle with the axis of the bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse genicular ligament | A transverse band that passes between the lateral and medial menisci in the anterior part of the knee joint. Synonym: ligamentum transversum genus, transverse genicular ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse head | Head of origin of a muscle which is transversely situated. Nomina Anatomica lists transverse heads (caput transversum...) of the following: 1) adductor hallucis muscle (... Musculi adductoris hallucis ); 2) adductor pollicis muscle (... Musculi adductoris pollicis ). Synonym: caput transversum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse hermaphroditism | Pseudohermaphroditism in which the external genitalia are characteristic of one sex and the gonads are characteristic of the other sex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse horizontal axis | An imaginary line around which the mandible may rotate through the horizontal plane. Synonym: hinge axis, mandibular axis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transverse humeral ligament | <anatomy> A fibrous band running more or less obliquely from the greater to the lesser tuberosity of the humerus, bridging over the bicipital groove. Synonym: Brodie's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |