| peribuccal | Surrounding the cheek. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| peribulbar | Surrounding any bulb, especially the eyeball or the bulb of the urethra. Synonym: circumbulbar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peribursal | Surrounding a bursa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericaecal | Surrounding the caecum. Synonym: perityphlic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericallosal artery | <anatomy, artery> The continuation of the anterior cerebral artery after the anterior communicating artery; it supplies branches to the cerebral cortex as it passes along the corpus callosum. Synonym: pars postcommunicalis arteria cerebri anterior, arteria pericallosa, postcommunical part of anterior cerebral artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericambium | <biology> A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate. Origin: NL. See Peri-, and Cambium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pericanalicular | Surrounding a canaliculus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericanicular dense bodies | <cell biology> Electron dense membrane bounded cytoplasmic organelles found near the canaliculi in liver cells: lysosomes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pericapillary cell | <pathology> Cell associated with the walls of small blood vessels: not a smooth muscle cell, nor an endothelial cell. (18 Nov 1997) |
| pericardectomy | Surgical excision (total or partial) of a portion of the pericardium. Pericardiotomy refers to incision of the pericardium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pericardia | Plural of pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericardiac | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. <physiology> Pericardial fluid, a serous fluid of a pale yellow colour contained in the pericardium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pericardiacophrenic artery | <anatomy, artery> Origin, internal thoracic; distribution, pericardium, diaphragm, and pleura; anastomoses, musculophrenic, inferior phrenic, mediastinal and pericardial branches of the internal thoracic. Synonym: arteria pericardiacophrenica, arteria comes nervi phrenici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericardiacophrenic veins | The veins accompanying the pericardiacophrenic artery and emptying into the brachiocephalic veins or superior vena cava. Synonym: venae pericardiacophrenicae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pericardial | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart. <physiology> Pericardial fluid, a serous fluid of a pale yellow colour contained in the pericardium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |