Glossary

The inside of the eye as seen through an ophthalmoscope; the ocular fundus.  

The cavity, lined with mesoderm, that surrounds the embryo from the earliest stages of development. It communicates temporarily with the ...

An instrument used to pull out a natural part of the body, to remove a foreign object, or to assist ...

A surgical procedure in which an organ is brought from its normal site to the surface of the body. This ...

Drying up, as may occur in tissues deprived of an adequate supply of water during dehydration or starvation.  

The pushing outward of one or more teeth into a better position by a dental appliance.  

An instrument for measuring the degree of protrusion of the eyeball. The distance measured is that from the rim of ...

An enzyme (e.g. trypsin) that takes part in the digestion of proteins by splitting off the terminal amino acids of ...

Describing those stages in the life cycle of the malarial parasite that develop in the cells of the liver. Each ...

An enzyme that acts outside the cell that produced it. Examples of exoenzymes are the digestive enzymes.