| BL | Barre-Lieou [syndrome]; basal lamina; baseline; Bessey-Lowry [unit]; black light; bladder; bleeding;... |
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| CL | capillary lumen; cardiolipin; cell line; centralis lateralis; chemiluminescence; chest and left arm ... |
| EL | early latent; elbow; electroluminescence; erythroleukemia; exercise limit; external lamina |
| FBL | follicular basal lamina |
| GBL | glomerular basal lamina |
| limbus of cornea | The margin of the cornea overlapped by the sclera. Synonym: limbus corneae, corneal margin, sclerocorneal junction. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| limbus of tympanic membrane | Margin of the tympanic membrane attaching to the tympanic sulcus. Synonym: limbus membranae tympani. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limbus palpebrales anteriores | The anterior edge of the free margin of each eyelid, along close to which the eyelashes are embedded. Synonym: limbus palpebrales anteriores. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limbus penicillatus | <pathology> The densely packed microvilli on the apical surface of, for example: intestinal epithelial cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| limbus striatus | Obsolete term for the apical surface of an epithelium with microvilli. (18 Nov 1997) |
| proximal spiral septum | See: spiral septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| secondary spiral plate | A ridge on the outer wall of the first turn of the cochlea opposite the spiral lamina. Synonym: lamina spiralis secundaria, secondary spiral plate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral | Of leaves or floral organs, borne at different levels on the main stem, in an ascending spiral. Compare: cyclic. (09 Oct 1997) |
| spiral and curved bacteria | A large, very diverse group of bacteria in which some species are curved, some helical. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spiral artery | <anatomy, artery> One of the corkscrew-like artery's in premenstrual or progestational endometrium. Synonym: coiled artery of the uterus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral bandage | An oblique bandage encircling a limb, the successive turns overlapping those preceding. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral bulbar septum | See: spiral septum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral canal of cochlea | The winding tube of the bony labyrinth which makes two and a half turns about the modiolus of the cochlea; it is divided incompletely into two compartments by a winding shelf of bone, the bony spiral lamina. Synonym: canalis spiralis cochleae, Rosenthal's canal, spiral canal of cochlea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral canal of modiolus | <anatomy> The space in the modiolus in which the spiral ganglion of the cochlear nerve lies. Synonym: canalis spiralis modioli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiral cleavage | <marine biology> Pattern of early cleavage found in molluscs and annelids (both mosaic eggs). The animal pole blastomeres are rotated with respect to those of the vegetal pole. The handedness of the spiral twist is maternally inherited. (18 Nov 1997) |