This plane is defined as one that runs horizontally, or in a horizontal plane, and divides the body into superior and inferior parts. The meaning of superior is above and the meaning of inferior is below. This plane runs parallel to the ground when standing upright. A practical example of ...
What is the difference between inferior/posterior regions of the body vs. cranial and caudal? What are the two subdivisions of the ventral cavity? Describe the function of the organs within the thoracic cavity and their location using appropriate medical terminology. ...
This capillary network also aids in regulating the temperature of the epidermis and superficial dermis. The reticular layer of the dermis merges with the inferior aspect of the papillary layer and therefore its border may be difficult to decipher. It forms the deepest layer of the dermis and ...
These four groups of complex lumbosacral injuries display distinct patterns of lumbosacral disruption and associated “fracture fragments”, resulting in either TLSI alone or combined TLSI and posterior pelvic ring instability (Fig.1; Table1). It is important to emphasize that these four injury patte...
Definition of myocardial infarction Criteria for acute myocardial infarction The term acute myocardial infarction (MI) should be used when there is evidence of myocardial necrosis in a clinical setting consistent with acute myocardial ischaemia. Under these conditions any one of the following criteria mee...
Scala tympani: found inferior to the cochlear duct, filled with perilymph. The scala media contains the spiral organ (of Corti), the receptor organ for hearing that produces nerve impulses in response to auditory stimuli, and transmits them via the auditory pathway to the brain.Terminology...
Conditions are associated with health, but in a medical sense, the disease determines a person’s health state. Figure 1. Modified ICF model. 3. Terminology: Disease Disease may be defined as a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces ...
Medical Encyclopedia Related to uteruses:uteri u·ter·us (yo͞o′tər-əs) n.pl.u·ter·i(yo͞o′tə-rī′)oru·ter·us·es 1.A hollow muscular organ located in the pelvic cavity of female mammals in which the fertilized egg implants and develops. Also calledwomb. ...
The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. 6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. There was . . . language in their very gesture. Shakespeare 7. The ...
3d. Mixed contracts, which are those by which one of the parties confers a benefit on the other, receiving something of inferior value in return, such as a donation subject to a charge, 24.-4. Into principal and accessory. 25.-5. Into those which are subjected by the civil law to...