Category: C

A projecting part at each end of the lower jaw which forms the head of the jaw, joining the jaw to the skull. A posterior process on the superior border of the ramus of the mandible consisting of a capitulum and neck. It articulates with the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone.  

Referring to conduction.  

A fibre which transmits impulses, e.g. in the bundle of His.  

The nerve system in the heart which links an atrium to a ventricle, so that the two beat at the same rate.  

Referring to someone who has been hit on the head and has lost and then regained consciousness.  

The depressed part of the outer ear that leads to the inner ear. A concavity on the median surface of the auricle of the ear, divided by a ridge into the upper cymba conchae and a lower cavum conchae. The latter leads to the external auditory meatus.  

The theoretical basis on which something is formed.  

A solution from which water has been removed.  

(Of a woman) to become pregnant with a child.  

A system of examining the body in which a narrow X-ray beam, guided by a computer, photographs a thin section of the body or of an organ from several angles, using the computer to build up an image of the section.