| A-a | alveolar-atrial |
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| AADO2, (a-A) DO2 | arterio-alveolar oxygen tension difference |
| AAG | 3-alkaladenine deoxyribonucleic acid glycosylase; allergic angiitis and granulomatosis; alpha-1-acid... |
| AAI | acute alveolar injury; Adolescent Alienation Index; American Association of Immunologists; atrial in... |
| ABM | adjusted body mass; alveolar basement membrane; autologous bone marrow |
| crura of bony saemicircular canals | The extremities of the bony saemicircular canals in which the corresponding membranous limbs of the saemicircular ducts are located; they are the common bony crus, simple bony crus, and ampullary bony crus. Synonym: crura ossea canalium saemicircularium, limbs of bony saemicircular canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| haversian canals | <anatomy> The small Vascular canal's that run longitudinally in the centre of haversian systems of compact osseous tissue, through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. Synonym: Leeuwenhoek's canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saemicircular canals | Three long canals (anterior, posterior, and lateral) of the labyrinth. They are set at right angles to each other and are situated superior and posterior to the vestibule. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Hirschfeld's canals | Canal's that extend vertically through alveolar bone between roots of mandibular and maxillary incisor and maxillary bicuspid teeth. Synonym: Hirschfeld's canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holmgren-Golgi canals | <cell biology> Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place. Part of the GERL complex. Synonym: Golgi body, Golgi vesicles, dictyosome (in plants), parabasal body (in flagellate protozoa). (11 Jan 1998) |
| Hoyer's canals | Arteriovenous anastomoses controlling blood flow in the glomus bodies in the digits. Synonym: Hoyer's anastomoses, Hoyer's canals, Sucquet's anastomoses, Sucquet's canals, Sucquet-Hoyer anastomoses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sucquet-Hoyer canals | Arteriovenous anastomoses controlling blood flow in the glomus bodies in the digits. Synonym: Hoyer's anastomoses, Hoyer's canals, Sucquet's anastomoses, Sucquet's canals, Sucquet-Hoyer anastomoses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sucquet's canals | Arteriovenous anastomoses controlling blood flow in the glomus bodies in the digits. Synonym: Hoyer's anastomoses, Hoyer's canals, Sucquet's anastomoses, Sucquet's canals, Sucquet-Hoyer anastomoses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dental canals | Canals in the body of the maxilla that transmit nerves and vessels from the alveolar foramina to the maxillary teeth. Synonym: canales alveolares, alveolodental canals, dental canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dentinal canals | Minute, wavy, branching tubes or canals in the dentin; they contain the long cytoplasmic processes of odontoblasts and extend radially from the pulp to the dentoenamel junction. Synonym: dental tubules, dentinal canals, dentinal tubules, tubuli dentales. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diploic canals | Channels in the diploe that accommodate the diploic veins. Synonym: canales diploici, Breschet's canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| interdental canals | Canal's that extend vertically through alveolar bone between roots of mandibular and maxillary incisor and maxillary bicuspid teeth. Synonym: Hirschfeld's canals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| interfacial canals | Intercellular spaces occurring in relation to intercellular attachments by desmosomes in stratified squamous epithelium, generally resulting from shrinkage of an artifact of fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kursteiner's canals | A foetal complex of vesicular, canalicular, and glandlike structures derived from parathyroid, thymus, or thymic cord; they are rudimentary and functionless unless persistent postnatally, when they may occur as cystic structures in the vicinity of parathyroid III and thymus III. Kursteiner described three types, type II canal's being associated with thyroaplasia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lateral saemicircular canals | The three bony tubes in the labyrinth of the ear within which the membranous saemicircular ducts are located; they lie in planes at right angles to each other and are known as anterior saemicircular canal, posterior saemicircular canal, and lateral saemicircular canal. Synonym: canales saemicirculares ossei. (05 Mar 2000) |