| border |
The part of a surface that forms its outer boundary.
See: edge, margin, border.
Synonym: margo.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| border cells |
Cell's forming the inner boundary of the organ of Corti.
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| border disease |
Congenital disorder of lambs caused by a virus closely related to or identical with certain strains of bovine viral diarrhoea virus.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| border disease virus |
A species of pestivirus causing a congenital sheep disease characterised by an abnormally hairy birth-coat, tremors, and poor growth.
(12 Dec 1998) |
| border molding |
The shaping of an impression material by the manipulation or action of the tissues adjacent to the borders of an impression.
Synonym: muscle-trimming, tissue molding, tissue-trimming.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| border movements |
Any extreme compass of mandibular movement limited by bone, ligaments, or soft tissues; usually applied to horizontal mandibular movement's.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| border of uterus |
The right or left margin of the uterus along which the broad ligament is attached. The uterine tube and round ligament attach to the uterus at the upper part of the border.
Synonym: margo uteri.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| border tissue movements |
The action of the muscles and other tissues adjacent to the borders of a denture.
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| brush border |
<pathology> The densely packed microvilli on the apical surface of, for example: intestinal epithelial cells.
(18 Nov 1997) |
| radial border of forearm |
An imaginary line running along the outermost extent of the forearm separating anterior and posterior surfaces laterally.
Synonym: margo lateralis antebrachii, margo radialis antebrachii, radial border of forearm.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| ventral border |
The ventral or most forward margin of a structure.
Synonym: anterior margin, ventral border.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| vermilion border |
The red margin of the upper and lower lip that commences at the exterior edge of the intraoral labial mucosa ("moist line") and extends outward, terminating at the extraoral labial cutaneous junction; a thinly keratinised type of stratified squamous epithelium deeply penetrated by well-vascularised dermal papillae which show through the translucent epidermis to impart the typical red appearance of the lips.
Synonym: vermilion zone, vermilion transitional zone.
(05 Mar 2000) |
| vertebral border of scapula |
The edge of the scapula closest to the vertebral column, extending from superior angle to inferior angle.
Synonym: margo medialis scapulae, vertebral border of scapula.
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| parietal border |
Edge of a bone which articulates with the parietal bone.
See: parietal border of frontal bone, parietal border of sphenoid bone, parietal border of temporal bone.
Synonym: margo parietalis, parietal margin.
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| parietal border of frontal bone |
The margin of the frontal bone that articulates with the parietal bone.
Synonym: margo parietalis ossis frontalis.
(05 Mar 2000) |
