An eyelid is a thin fold of skin that covers and protects the eye. With the exception of the prepuce and the labia minora it has the thinnest skin of […]
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Blastocoele
A blastocoel(e) or blastocele (also called blastocyst cavity cleavage cavity or segmentation cavity) is the fluid-filled central region of a blastula and mammalian blastocyst. A blastocoele forms during embryogenesis when […]
Long bone
The Long Bones are those that are longer than they are wide. They are one of five types of bones: long short flat irregular and sesamoid. Long bones especially the […]
Synaptic vesicle
In a neuron synaptic vesicles (or neurotransmitter vesicles) store various neurotransmitters that are released at the synapse. The release is regulated by a voltage-dependent calcium channel. Vesicles are essential for […]
Ovarian follicle
Ovarian follicles are the basic units of female reproductive biology each of which is composed of roughly spherical aggregations of cells found in the ovary. They contain a single oocyte […]
Pubococcygeus muscle
The pubococcygeus muscle or PC muscle is a hammock-like muscle found in both sexes that stretches from the pubic bone to the coccyx (tail bone) forming the floor of the […]
Paramesonephric duct
Müllerian ducts (or paramesonephric ducts) are paired ducts of the embryo that run down the lateral sides of the urogenital ridge and terminate at the Müllerian eminence in the primitive […]
Limbic lobe
The limbic lobe is an arc-shaped region of cortex on the medial surface of each cerebral hemisphere of the mammalian brain consisting of parts of the frontal parietal and temporal […]
Connexon
In biology a connexon or hemichannel is an assembly of six proteins called connexins that can be a part of a gap junction channel between the cytoplasm of two adjacent […]
Dartos
The dartos fascia is a layer of connective tissue found in the penile shaft and scrotum.66 In addition to being continuous with itself between the scrotum and the penis it […]