Author: Glossary

A plane passing through the most projecting points of the parietal and occipital protuberances.  

A neuroma-like mass of the neurovascular bundle of the intermetatarsal spaces.  

A depression, groove, or hole into which another anatomical structure fits.  

Undertaker; person trained to prepare the dead for burial.  

A vessel with a smooth interior in which crude drugs are crushed or ground with a pestle.  

A compilation of the death rates of individuals according to specific demographic characteristics (e.g., age, race, sex) or specific health status (e.g., accidental death, death during childbirth, or death caused by cancer).  

Surgical excision of a segment of heart muscle (myocardium) of the basal anterior ventricular septum below the aortic valve to treat hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.  

Variants within a species defined by variation in morphological characteristics.  

The classification of organisms by form and structure.