| SCBA | self-contained breathing apparatus |
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| SCUBA | self-contained underwater breathing apparatus |
| branchial apparatus | The aggregate of the pharyngeal arches, pouches, clefts, and membranes seen in the developing embryo of vertebrates. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Van Slyke apparatus | An apparatus for determining the amounts of respiratory gases in the blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| genitourinary apparatus | The organs concerned in the production and excretion of urine, together with the organs of reproduction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| masticatory apparatus | The organs and structures primarily functioning in mastication: the jaws, teeth with their supporting structures, temporomandibular joint, muscles of mastication, tongue, lips, cheeks, and oral mucosa. Synonym: dental apparatus, masticatory apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vestibular apparatus | <anatomy> The receptor organ of the vestibular portion of the 8th cranial nerve, consisting of the three saemicircular canals and the otolith, located within the petrous portion of the temporal bone of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| central apparatus | The centrosome and centrosphere. (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory apparatus | The organs that are involved in breathing. These include the nose, throat, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Golgi apparatus | <cell biology> Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place. Part of the GERL complex. Synonym: Golgi body, Golgi vesicles, dictyosome (in plants), parabasal body (in flagellate protozoa). (11 Jan 1998) |
| mental apparatus | Mental structure consisting of thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories; in psychoanalysis, the topographic structure of the mind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromatic apparatus | The deeply staining mass of chromosomes in a dividing cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chromidial apparatus | The aggregate of extranuclear network, irregular strands, and masses of basophilic staining material permeating the protoplasm of the cell. See: ribosome, endoplasmic reticulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Roughton-Scholander apparatus | A syringe-like device for analyzing the respiratory gases in a small sample of blood. Synonym: Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mitotic apparatus | See: mitosis, spindle fibre. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mitotic spindle apparatus | An organelle consisting of three components: 1) the astral microtubules, which form around each centrosome and extend to the periphery; 2) the polar microtubules which extend from one spindle pole to the equator; and 3) the kinetochore microtubules, which connect the centromeres of the various chromosomes to either centrosome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Warburg's apparatus | An apparatus for measuring the oxygen consumption of incubated tissue slices by manometric measurement of changes in gas pressure produced by oxygen absorption in an enclosed flask. Synonym: Barcroft-Warburg apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |