When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sulcus (morphology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulcus_(morphology)

    Clevenger's fissure: found in the inferior temporal lobe of the brain; Collateral fissure: found in the inferior surface of the cerebrum. Fissure of Bichat: found below the corpus callosum in the cerebellum of the brain. Lateral sulcus or Fissure of Sylvius: separates the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain from the temporal lobe.

  3. Buccal fat pad - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccal_fat_pad

    The buccal fat pad (also called Bichat’s fat pad, after Xavier Bichat, and the buccal pad of fat) is one of several encapsulated fat masses in the cheek. It is a deep fat pad located on either side of the face between the buccinator muscle and several more superficial muscles (including the masseter, the zygomaticus major, and the zygomaticus minor). [1]

  4. Porta hepatis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_hepatis

    The right vertical limb of the "H" defines the left and right functional lobes, while the left vertical limb of the "H" defines the right and left anatomical lobes. The horizontal line between the vertical limbs of the "H" represents the porta hepatis. The quadrate and caudate lobe lie superior and inferior to this line respectively.

  5. Central sulcus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_sulcus

    It then becomes a distinct invagination that lengthens towards the lateral sulcus and towards the longitudinal fissure [4] at approximately 22 to 23 weeks of gestational age. [ 5 ] Between 2 and 3 years of age, the landmark ‘Pli de Passage Frontoparietal Moyen’ (PPFM), which is a depression buried at the central part of the central sulcus ...

  6. Xavier Bichat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Bichat

    Marie François Xavier Bichat (/ b iː ˈ ʃ ɑː /; [3] French:; 14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) [4] was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. [ 5 ] [ a ] Although he worked without a microscope , Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed ...

  7. Transverse fissure - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_fissure

    Transverse fissure can refer to: Porta hepatis or transverse fissure of liver; Horizontal fissure of right lung (or 'horizontal fissure') Horizontal fissure of cerebellum

  8. Rail inspection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_inspection

    transverse fissures; wheel burn; One effect that can cause crack propagation is the presence of water and other liquids. When fluid fills a small crack and a train passes over, the water becomes trapped in the void and can expand the crack tip. Also, the trapped fluid could freeze and expand or initiate the corrosion process.

  9. Goodsall's rule - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodsall's_rule

    Goodsall's rule relates the external opening (in the perianal skin) of an anal fistula to its internal opening (in the anal canal). It states that if the perianal skin opening is posterior to the transverse anal line, the fistulous tract will open into the anal canal in the midline posteriorly, sometimes taking a curvilinear course.