378 GLOSSARY 



Fi'brin (Lat./6ra, thread) : a white fibrous substance formed in the 



clotting of the blood. 

 Fi-brin'o-gen : a substance in the blood which forms or helps to form 



fibrin, and thus causes clotting. 

 Fib'u-la (Lat., clasp, buckle) : the outer and smaller of the two bones 



of the leg. 

 Fill-form pa-pil'lae : one form of the papillae of the tongue, containing 



end organs for taste. 



Fissure of Ro-lan'do : the furrow separating the frontal from the pari- 

 etal lobe in the brain. 

 Floating ribs : the two lowest pairs of ribs, in man. They are not 



connected with the others in front. 

 Food : that which, taken into the alimentary canal, supplies material 



for the growth and repair of tissue, for the generation of force, or 



for the regulation of force. 

 Food elements : the five classes of food substances necessary to the 



health of the body, viz. proteids, carbohydrates, fats, water, salts. 

 Fo-ra'men mag'num (Lat. from/orare, to bore, pierce; magnus, great): 



a large opening in the occipital bone of the skull, through which 



the spinal cord passes. 



Fron'tal bone : the bone forming the front of the skull. 

 Func'tion (L&t. functio, from fungi, to perform) : the appropriate action 



of any organ or part of an organism. 

 Fun'gi-form pa-pil'lae : one form of the papillae of the tongue. 



Gan'gli-on (Lat., a sort of swelling or excrescence, from Gr.) : a little 

 knot of nervous matter composed mainly of nerve cells. 



Gas'tric (Gr. gaster, stomach) : pertaining to the stomach, or situated 

 near it; as the gastric juice, the gastric artery. 



Gas-troc-ne'mi-us (Gr. gastroknemia, the calf of the leg) : the chief 

 muscle of the calf of the leg. 



Gland (Lat. glans, glandis, acorn) : an organ for secreting something 

 to be used in or eliminated from the body. 



Glo-mer'u-lus (Lat., diminutive of glomus, ball) : one of the little 

 bunches of looped capillary blood vessels in the cortex of the kid- 

 ney, from which the uriniferous tubules arise. 



Glos-so-phar-yn-ge'al nerves (Gr. glossa, tongue, and Eng. pharyngeal) : 

 the ninth pair of cranial nerves. 



Glot'tis (Gr., from glotta, the tongue) : the opening from the pharynx 

 into the larynx. 



