| Garre, Carl | <person> Swiss surgeon, 1857-1928. See: Garre's disease, Garre's osteomyelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| garrison | A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison. Origin: OE. Garnisoun, F. Garnison garrison, in OF. & OE. Also, provision, munitions, from garnir to garnish. See Garnish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garrot | <surgery> A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb. Origin: F. Cf. Garrote. <zoology> The European golden-eye. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garrulous | 1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious. "The most garrulous people on earth." (De Quincey) 2. <ornithology, zoology> Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; said of birds; as, the garrulous roller. Synonym: Garrulous, Talkative, Loquacious. A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious a great flow of words at command. A child is talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in his dotage is garrulous. Gar"rulously, Gar"rulousness. Origin: L. Garrulus, fr. Garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. Voice, to speak, sing. Cf. Call. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garrupa | <zoology> One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastichthys. Synonym: rockfish. See Rockfish. Origin: Prob. Fr. Pg. Garupa crupper. Cf. Grouper the fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garter | 1. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg. 2. The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself. 3. Same as Bendlet. Garter fish, one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutaenia, of several species (especially. E. Saurita and E. Sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; so called from its conspicuous stripes of colour. Origin: OE. Gartier, F. Jarretiere, fr. OF. Garet bend of the knee, F. Jarret; akin to Sp. Garra claw, Prov. Garra leg. See Garrote. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| garth | 1. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. "A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit." (Tennyson) 2. A dam or weir for catching fish. Origin: Icel. Garr yard. See Yard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gartner duct cyst | <radiology> Cyst in lateral wall of vagina, remnant of wolffian duct (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gartner's bacillus | A serotype of salmonella enterica which is an aetiologic agent of gastroenteritis in man and other animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Gartner's canal | A rudimentary vestige of the mesonephric duct in the female into which the tubules of the epoophoron open; it is located in the broad ligament of the uterus, parallel with the lateral part of the uterine tube, and in the lateral walls of the cervix and vagina. Synonym: ductus epoophori longitudinalis, ductus deferens vestigialis, Gartner's canal, Gartner's duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's cyst | A cyst of the principal duct in the vestigial structures of the paroophoron in the cervix or anterolateral vaginal wall, corresponding to the sexual portion of mesonephros in the male. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's duct | A rudimentary vestige of the mesonephric duct in the female into which the tubules of the epoophoron open; it is located in the broad ligament of the uterus, parallel with the lateral part of the uterine tube, and in the lateral walls of the cervix and vagina. Synonym: ductus epoophori longitudinalis, ductus deferens vestigialis, Gartner's canal, Gartner's duct. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's duct cyst | <gynaecology> A closed sac on or under the vaginal mucosa that contains fluid or semi-solid material. These may occur secondary to trauma. Treatment may include surgical excision. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Gartner's method | A method of measuring venous pressure, based upon Gartner's vein phenomenon; with the patient sitting erect, a vein is selected on the back of the hand which is held dependent, well below the level of the right atrium, and then is raised slowly; when the vein is observed to collapse, the distance between its level and that of the atrium is measured with a millimeter rule; this distance gives the venous pressure in millimeters of blood; thus the vein itself is used as a manometer communicating with the right atrium; highly inaccurate, especially in elderly subjects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gartner's tonometer | An apparatus for estimating the blood pressure by noting the force, expressed by the height of a column of mercury, needed to arrest pulsation in a finger encircled by a compressing ring. (05 Mar 2000) |