| LFL | left frontolateral; leukocyte feeder layer; lower flammable limit |
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| NFL | nerve fiber layer; neurofilament protein, light polypeptide |
| NFLD | nerve fiber layer defect |
| OPL | other party liability; outer plexiform layer; ovine placental lactogen |
| PL | palmaris longus; pancreatic lipase; perception of light; peroneus longus; phospholipase; phospholipi... |
| intermediate lamella | One of the lamellae of partially resorbed osteons occurring between newer, complete osteons. Synonym: ground lamella, intermediary system, intermediate lamella. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| intermediate laryngeal cavity | Portion of the cavity of the larynx between the vestibular and vocal folds, with which the ventricles communicate. Synonym: aditus glottidis superior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate line of iliac crest | The line on the crest of the ilium between the outer and inner lips, for origin of internal oblique muscle. Synonym: linea intermedia cristae iliacae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate lumbar lymph nodes | The chain of lymph nodes located between the aorta and the inferior vena cava. Synonym: nodi lymphatici lumbales intermedii, lumbar lymph nodes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate mass | The variable connection between the two thalamic masses across the third ventricle; absent in about 20% of human brains. Synonym: adhesio interthalamica, commissura cinerea, commissura grisea, intermediate mass, massa intermedia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate mesoderm | A continuous band of mesoderm between the segmented paraxial mesoderm medially and the lateral plate mesoderm laterally; from it develops the nephrogenic cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate nerve | A root of the facial nerve containing sensory fibres for taste from the anterior 2/3 of tongue whose cell bodies are located in the geniculate ganglion and presynaptic parasympathetic autonomic fibres whose cell bodies are located in the superior salivatory nucleus, i.e., the fibres eventually conveyed via the chorda tympani branch of the facial nerve to the lingual nerve. Synonym: intermediary nerve, intermediate nerve, portio intermedia, Wrisberg's nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate part | Central portion; the portion located between extreme portions of a structure; an interposed or intervening part. See: intermediate part of adenohypophysis, intermediate part of vestibular bulb. Synonym: pars intermedia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate part of adenohypophysis | The part of the adenohypophysis located between the pars distalis and the nervous lobe; poorly developed in humans. Synonym: pars intermedia adenohypophyseos. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate part of vestibular bulb | A narrow median band that connects the two masses of erectile tissue (the bulbus vestibuli) on either side of the vaginal orifice. Synonym: pars intermedia commissura bulborum, commissura bulborum, intermediate part of vestibular bulb, pars intermedia bulborum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate rays | Those between ultraviolet and X-ray's. Synonym: W rays. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate sacral crests | Crests formed by the fusion of articular processes of all the sacral vertebrae. Synonym: articular crests, cristae sacrales intermediae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate species | <chemistry> Species formed in a reaction consisting of more than one step. An intermediate is produced in one reaction and consumed in the following reaction. (09 Jan 1998) |
| intermediate supraclavicular nerve | <anatomy, nerve> One of several nerves arising from the C-3-C-4 part of the cervical plexus which run across the top of the shoulder and pass down across the clavicle to supply the skin of the top of the shoulder and in the infraclavicular region. Synonym: nervus supraclavicularis intermedius, middle supraclavicular nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermediate temporal artery | <anatomy, artery> A branch of the insular part of the middle cerebral artery supplying the cortex of the temporal lobe between the anterior and posterior temporal arteries. Synonym: arteria temporalis intermedia. (05 Mar 2000) |