| gromill | <botany> See Gromwell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gromwell | <botany> A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. Arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. Alternative forms: gromill. Origin: Called also gromel, grommel, graymill, and gray millet, all prob. Fr. F. Gr?mil, cf. W. Cromandi. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gronblad, Ester | <person> Swedish ophthalmologist, *1898. See: Gronblad-Strandberg syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gronblad-Strandberg syndrome | <syndrome> Angioid streaks of the retina together with pseudoxanthoma elasticum of the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grooming | An animal's cleaning and caring for the body surface. This includes preening, the cleaning and oiling of feathers with the bill or of hair with the tongue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| groomsman | A male attendant of a bridegroom at his wedding; the correlative of bridesmaid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grooper | <zoology> See Grouper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| groove | 1. A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut. 2. Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine. "The gregarious trifling of life in the social groove." (J. Morley) 3. [See Grove. <chemical> A shaft or excavation. Origin: D. Groef, groeve; akin to E. Grove. See Grove. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| groove for arch of aorta | A broad, deep sulcus arching superiorly over the hilus on the mediastinal surface of the left lung formed as a result of the aortic arch impressing or indenting the lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for auditory tube | A furrow on the inner surface of the posterior border of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone, for the cartilaginous auditory tube. Synonym: sulcus tubae auditivae, pharyngotympanic groove. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for inferior petrosal sinus | A groove lodging the inferior petrosal sinus, formed by union of similarly named grooves in the petrous part of the temporal bone and the basilar part of the occipital bone. Synonym: sulcus sinus petrosi inferioris, inferior petrosal groove, inferior petrosal sulcus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for inferior venae cava | A groove on the posterior surface of the liver between the caudate lobe and the right lobe which gives passage to the inferior vena cava. Synonym: sulcus venae cavae, fossa venae cavae, sulcus for vena cava. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for middle temporal artery | <anatomy, artery> A vertical groove located above the external acoustic meatus on the external surface of the squamous part of the temporal bone. Synonym: sulcus arteriae temporalis mediae, sulcus for middle temporal artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for radial nerve | <anatomy, nerve> The shallow groove that passes around the shaft of the humerus; it lodges the radial nerve and deep brachial artery. Synonym: sulcus nervi radialis, musculospiral groove, spiral groove. (05 Mar 2000) |
| groove for sigmoid sinus | A broad groove in the posterior cranial fossa, first situated on the lateral portion of the occipital bone, then curving around the jugular process on to the mastoid portion of the temporal bone, and finally turning sharply on the posterior inferior angle of the parietal bone and becoming continuous with the transverse groove; it lodges the transverse sinus. Synonym: sulcus sinus sigmoidei, sigmoid fossa, sigmoid groove, sigmoid sulcus. (05 Mar 2000) |