Carotid body
Carotid body The carotid body is a small cluster of chemoreceptors and ... cells located near the bifurcation of the carotid artery. It measures changes in blood ...
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Carotid endarterectomy
Carotid endarterectomy The carotid artery and other arteries of the neck. Carotid entarterectomy is a surgical procedure used to correct carotid stenosis (obstruction of the carotid artery by atheroma), used particularly when ...
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Aortic body
Aortic body The aortic body is one of several small cluster of ... a tumor that may involve the aortic body. See also Carotid body Control of respiration
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Glomus body
Glomus body The glomus body is not to be confused with the ... a kind of chemoreceptor found in the carotid bodies and aortic bodies. A glomus body (or glomus apparatus) is a component of ... dermis layer of the skin, involved in body temperature regulation. The glomus body consists ...
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Ultimobranchialer body   (translated from German)
Ultimobranchialer body That Ultimobranchiale body (Glandula ultimobranchialis) is a small endokrines organ ... of the chest entrance at that Arteria carotid COMM universities, is that Schilddruese and that ... Zellen the organ form Calcitonin . The Ultimobranchiale body develops from the 4. (sometimes also 5 ...
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... distinct cell types in the adult human body
... distinct cell types in the adult human body Keratinizing epithelial cells Epidermal keratinocyte (differentiating epidermal ... gland, etc.) Epithelial cells lining closed internal body cavities Blood vessel and lymphatic vascular endothelial ... stem cell of osteoblasts) Hyalocyte of vitreous body of eye Stellate cell of perilymphatic space ... primary sensory neurons (various types) Type I carotid body cell (blood pH sensor) Type II ...
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List of anatomical topics
... anulus fibrosus - anulus tendineus - anus - aorta - aortic body - aponeurosis - apophysis - appendage - appendicular skeleton - appendix - aprosody ... bitemporal heminopia - blastomere - blood - blood brain barrier - body - bone - bone marrow - bony labyrinth - Bowman's ... carapace - cardiac - cardiophrenic angle - cardiovascular system - carina - carotid - carotid bifurcation - carotid body - carotid canal - carotid groove - carotid ...
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List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy: IX. Neurology
... longitudinal fasciculus lateral district olive (oliva; olivary body) Gray's page #774 posterior district fasciculus ... dorsal accessory olivary nucleus Inferior peduncle (restiform body) dorsal spinocerebellar fasciculus olivocerebellar fibers Internal arcuate ... of pons Gray's page #787 trapezoid body trapezoid nucleus medial longitudinal fasciculus superior olivary ... s page #805 corpora quadrigemina pulvinar pineal body frenulum veli brachium superior brachium Gray's page #806 brachium lateral geniculate body inferior brachium medial geniculate body inferior ...
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Triangles of the neck
... above, by the lower border of the body of the mandible, and an imaginary line ... formed by the lower border of the body of the mandible, and a line extending ... These smaller triangles are named the inferior carotid, the superior carotid, the submaxillary, and the suprahyoid. Inferior Carotid, or Muscular Triangle The Inferior Carotid, ...
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List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy: XI. Splanchnology
... Sulcus: intermedius (stomach) Gray's page #1163 Body or Bodies : of stomach Stomach: body of: Stomach: component parts of: Stomach: fundus ... anal part of rectum: valves of: Anococcygeal body Body or Bodies , anococcygeal: Body or Bodies : perineal Colon: structure of: ...
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