List of articles in "Anatomical Structure" category - Page 373

Older texts have asserted the existence of an urogenital diaphragm also called the triangular ligament which was described as a layer of the pelvis that separates the deep perineal sac […]

The planum temporale is the cortical area just posterior to the auditory cortex (Heschl’s gyrus) within the Sylvian fissure. It is a triangular region which forms the heart of Wernicke’s […]

A somite is a division of the body of an animal.In vertebrates somites are bilaterally paired blocks of mesoderm that form along the anterior-posterior axis of the developing embryo in […]

Neurulation refers to the folding process in vertebrate embryos which includes the transformation of the neural plate into the neural tube. The embryo at this stage is termed the neurula.The […]

The nasal septum separates the left and right airways in the nose dividing the two nostrils.It is depressed by the depressor septi nasi muscle.

For the cell in the gastrointestinal tract see Interstitial cell of Cajal.Astrocytes (etymology: astron gk. star cyte gk. cell) also known collectively as astroglia are characteristic star-shaped glial cells in […]

The arcuate fasciculus (Latin curved bundle) is a bundle of axons that forms part of the superior longitudinal fasciculus. The arcuate bidirectionally connects caudal temporal cortex and inferior parietal cortex […]

The middle meningeal artery (Latin: arteria meningea media) is typically the third branch of the first part (retromandibular part) of the maxillary artery one of the two terminal branches of […]

The paired sublingual glands are major salivary glands in the mouth. It is the smallest most diffuse and the only unencapsulated major salivary gland. It provides only 10% of the […]

In the anatomy of the brain the centromedian nucleus also known as the centrum medianum (CM or Cm-Pf) is a part of the intralaminar nucleus (ILN) of the thalamus. There […]