| CTW | central terminal of Wilson; combined testicular weight |
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| DNTT | terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase |
| ERT | esophageal radionuclide transit; estrogen replacement therapy; examination room terminal; external r... |
| ET | educational therapy; effective temperature; ejection time; embryo transfer; endothelin; endotoxin; e... |
| Fd | the amino-terminal portion of the heavy chain of an immunoglobulin molecule; ferredoxin |
| terminal leukocytosis | One that occurs in a person just prior to death, especially in one who has a "slow death." Synonym: agonal leukocytosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| terminal line | An oblique ridge on the inner surface of the ilium and continued on the pubis, which forms the lower boundary of the iliac fossa; it separates the true from the false pelvis. Synonym: iliopectineal line, terminal line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal nerve corpuscles | Generic term denoting specialised encapsulated nerve endings such as the articular, bulboid, genital, lamellated, and tactile corpuscles, and the tactile meniscus. Synonym: corpuscula nervosa terminalia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal nerves | Delicate plexiform nerve strands passing parallel and medial to the olfactory tracts, distributing peripherally with the olfactory nerves and passing centrally into the anterior perforated substance; they are considered to have an autonomic function but the exact nature of this is unknown. Synonym: terminal nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal notch of auricle | A deep notch separating the lamina tragi and cartilage of the external auditory meatus from the main auricular cartilage, the two being connected below by the isthmus. Synonym: incisura terminalis auris, auricular notch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal nuclei | Nuclei terminales, collective term indicating those nerve cell groups in the rhombencephalon and spinal cord in which the afferent fibres of the spinal and cranial nerves terminate. Synonym: nuclei terminationis, secondary sensory nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal oxidation | <biochemistry> The last oxidation step in a catabolic pathway. Synonym: terminal oxidation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal part | See: middle cerebral artery, posterior cerebral artery. Synonym: terminal part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal plate | A thin plate passing upward from the optic chiasm and forming the rostral boundary of the third ventricle; membrane closing the rostral neuropore. Synonym: lamina terminalis cerebri, lamina cinerea, terminal plate, velum terminale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal pneumonia | Pneumonia occurring in the course of some other disease near its fatal termination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal redundancy | The condition in a viral chromosome in which identical genetic information occurs at each end of the chromosome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal stria | A slender, compact fibre bundle that connects the amygdala (amygdaloid body) with the hypothalamus and other basal forebrain regions. Originating from the amygdala, the bundle passes first caudalward in the roof of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle; it follows the medial side of the caudate nucleus forward in the floor of the ventricle's central part (or body) until it reaches the interventricular foramen, in the posterior wall of which it curves steeply down to enter the hypothalamus, with fibres passing both rostral and caudal to the anterior commissure. Coursing caudalward in the medial part of the hypothalamus, the bundle terminates in the anterior and ventromedial hypothalamic nuclei. Synonym: stria terminalis, Foville's fasciculus, Tarin's tenia, tenia saemicircularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal sulcus | Sulcus terminalis linguae; a V-shaped groove, with apex pointing backward, on the surface of the tongue, marking the separation between the oral, or horizontal, and the pharyngeal, or vertical, parts, sulcus terminalis atrii dextri; a groove on the surface of the right atrium of the heart, marking the junction of the primitive sinus venosus with the atrium. Synonym: terminal sulcus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal thread | A long, slender connective tissue (pia mater) strand extending from the extremity of the medullary cone to the internal aspect of the spinal dural sac (filum terminale internum); stout strands of connective tissue attaching the spinal dural sac to the coccyx (filum terminale externum), commonly called the coccygeal ligament. Synonym: filum terminale, nervus impar, terminal thread. (05 Mar 2000) |
| terminal transferase | <enzyme> An enzyme adds a particular nucleotide to the 3' end of DNAstrands. (09 Oct 1997) |