Author: Glossary

Inflammation of a ligament.  

The epithelial lining of vessels and synovial cavities.  

A video conferencing system in which at least one terminal is a personal computer.  

The normal passage of the testicle from the abdominal cavity down into the scrotum. This occurs during the last few months of fetal life.  

A branch of the hypoglossal nerve occurring at the point at which the nerve curves around the occipital artery, which passes down obliquely across (sometimes within) the sheath of the carotid vessels to form a loop just below the middle of the neck with branches of the second and third cervical nerves.  

To move from the top of the body toward the feet; to move in a caudal direction.  

A protrusion of Descemet’s membrane.  

A process whereby a saturated organic compound is converted into an unsaturated one, as when stearic acid, C18H3602, is changed into oleic acid, C18H3402. The product has different physical and chemical properties after this transformation.  

Partial or complete removal of salts from a substance, as from seawater or brackish water, so that it is suitable for agricultural or household purposes but not necessarily for drinking.  

A growth of yellow fatty tissue beneath the bulbar conjunctiva.