Category: S

Having a long narrow skull.  

A disorder in speaking, where each sound is spoken separately and given equal stress. A disorder of articulation in which the syllables are inappropriately separated and equally stressed. It is caused by disease of the cerebellum or its connecting fibers in the brainstem. A speech disorder in which articulated syllables are wrongly spaced and each…

A machine which scans a part of the body. A person who examines a test slide. A person who operates a scanning machine.  

A small sharp-pointed knife used in surgery. A very precise surgical knife used to cut tissue in operations. A plasma scalpel is a device that uses a high-temperature gas jet for cutting rather than a blade. A small pointed surgical knife with a straight handle and a convex edge to the blade: used by surgeons…

The thick skin and muscle, with the hair, which covers the skull. Skin covering the head, not including the ears and face. The tough skin that covers the skull above the face and ears that is usually covered with hair. The scalp has five layers of tissue with an extensive blood supply. Scalp hair, which…

To fall off in scales.  

A pain in an arm, caused by the scalenus anterior muscle pressing the subclavian artery and the brachial plexus against the vertebrae. Symptoms caused by a scalenus muscle (especially scalenus anterior) compressing the subclavian artery and part of the brachial plexus against the bones of upper thoracic or lower cervical vertebrae; loss of sensation, discomfort,…

One of a group of muscles in the neck which bend the neck forwards and sideways, and also help expand the lungs in deep breathing. Any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib and involved in movement of the neck and in breathing movements. One of four paired…

Referring to a liquid which is very hot. Referring to urine which gives a burning sensation when passed. In the culinary world, the term “scalding” refers to the process of heating milk just below the boiling point. This technique is employed to prevent the milk from souring prematurely. By subjecting the milk to gentle heat,…

A spiral canal in the cochlea. One of the spiral canals of the cochlea. The scala media (cochlear duct) is the central membranous canal, containing the sensory apparatus of the cochlea; the scala vestibuli and scala tympani are the two bony canals of the cochlea. Any one of the three spiral passages of the cochlea…