432 GLOSSARY 



Adduction. (From the Latin words ad, "to;" ducere, "to lead.") 

 The drawing of a part toward the axis of the body, organ, or limb. 



Adenoid. Resembling a gland, as glandular tissue. 



Adipose (Tissue). (From the Latin word adeps, "fat.") Fatty. 



Adrenal. (From the Latin words ad, "near to;" ren, "the kidney.") 

 Adjacent to the kidney. 



Adventitia. (From the Latin word adventitius, "foreign.") The 

 outer coat of a bloodvessel. 



Afferent. (From the Latin word afferens, "carrying to.") Carrying 

 to the centre. Sensor nerves conveying impulses from the periphery 

 to the ganglia of the spinal cord, and to the centres in the brain. 



Alkaline in Reaction. Is a term used to express the response to a 

 certain test (litmus-paper), as to the alkalinity of a chemical solution, 

 secretion, or excretion from the body or any of its organs, membranes, etc. 



Alveolar. (From the Latin word alveolus, "a small hollow.") Per- 

 taining to an alveolus. 



Alveolus (pi. i). A small hollow. As the spaces in the lungs at 

 the end of the bronchioles. 



Ameba. (From the Greek word ameibo, "to change.") A colorless, 

 single-celled, jelly-like, protoplasmic organism found in sea and fresh 

 waters, constantly undergoing changes of form and nourishing its.clf 

 by englobing surrounding objects. 



Ameboid. Resembling an ameba in its movements. As a white 

 cell of the blood. 



Amphiarthrosis. (Around a joint.) A mixed articulation permitting 

 slight motion. 



Ampulla (Vater). (From the Latin word meaning a narrow-necked 

 vessel shaped like a jug, in which the ancient Romans conveyed jellies 

 or ointments) . A portion of the membrane of the duodenum where the 

 common bile duct and pancreatic duct open. Ampulla, any space 

 shaped as above. 



Amyelinic. Without a myelin sheath. 



Amylose. (From the Greek word meaning starch.) Any one of 

 the group of carbohydrates, comprising starch, glycogen, dextrin. 



Anabolism. Constructive metabolism. Activity and repair of 

 function by the tissues, opposed to katabolism. 



Anastomose. To communicate with each other, as arteries, veins, 

 lymphatics, etc. 



Anastomosis. The communication between arteries, veins, and 

 lymphatics within the skin, muscles, organs, etc. 



Anatomic. Relating or belonging to anatomy. 



Annular (ligament). (From the Latin word annulus, "a ring.") 

 Ring-like. The ligament surrounding the wrist and ankle. 



Annulus Oyalis. "The oval ring." The oval margin of the foramen 

 ovale in the interauricular wall of the heart. (Ovalis from the Latin 

 word ovum, "an egg.") 



Antebrachium. (From the Latin word ante, "before"; brachium, 

 "arm.") The forearm. 



Antecubital. The A space in front of the elbow- joint. 



Anterior. Perforated space. An irregular quadrate space, situated 

 at the inferior surface of the cerebrum, between the olfactory trigone 

 and the optic chiasm and tract. 



