Excretory+ducts
11vertebrate — /verr teuh brit, brayt /, adj. 1. having vertebrae; having a backbone or spinal column. 2. belonging or pertaining to the Vertebrata (or Craniata), a subphylum of chordate animals, comprising those having a brain enclosed in a skull or cranium… …
12ductule — A minute duct. SYN: ductulus. aberrant ductules [TA] the superior or inferior diverticula of the epididymis. SYN: ductuli aberrantes [TA], aberrant ducts, ductus aberrantes, vasa aberrantia. biliary ductules the excretory ducts of the …
13Lacrimal gland — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = glandula lacrimalis GraySubject = 227 GrayPage = 1028 Caption = Lacrimal apparatus of the right eye. The lacrimal gland is to the upper left. The right side of the picture is towards the nose. Caption2 =… …
14duct of Bellini — duct of Bel·li·ni be lē nē n any of the large excretory ducts of the uriniferous tubules of the kidney that open on the free surface of the papillae Bellini Lorenzo (1643 1704) Italian anatomist and physiologist. Bellini is important as one of… …
15Major sublingual duct — Latin ductus sublingualis major Gray s subject #242 1136 The excretory ducts of the sublingual gland are from eight to twenty in number. Of the smaller sublingual ducts (ducts of Rivinus), some join the submandibular duct; others o …
16Sylvius, Franciscus — orig. Franz de le Boë French François du Bois born March 15, 1614, Hanau, Ger. died Nov. 15, 1672, Leiden, Neth. German born Dutch physician, physiologist, anatomist, and chemist. He based his medical system on William Harvey s discovery of the… …
17Prostate — A gland within the male reproductive system that is located just below the bladder. Chestnut shaped, the prostate surrounds the beginning of the urethra, the canal that empties the bladder. The prostate is actually not one but many glands, 30 50… …
18urinary tract obstruction — ▪ pathology blockage or constriction at any point in the urinary tract that impedes the normal flow of urine and causes urine to be retained in the bladder or kidneys. When an obstruction causes urine to become backed up into the kidneys,… …
19Caspar Friedrich Wolff — (January 18, 1733 ndash; February 22, 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology.LifeWolff was born in Berlin, Brandenburg. In 1759 he graduated as an M.D. from the University of Halle with his dissertation Theoria… …
20Sublingual gland — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = glandula sublingualis GraySubject = 242 GrayPage = 1136 Caption = Dissection, showing salivary glands of right side. (Sublingual gland visible near bottom right.) Caption2 = Salivary glands: #1 is Parotid… …
