Category: D

A special cataract needle for making multiple cuts into the lens capsule.  

Myelopathy that descends along the spinal cord toward the feet.  

Inflammation of several separate areas of the spinal cord.  

Myelitis affecting successively lower areas of the spinal cord.  

One of the various neck muscles that surround the vertebral column and base of the skull and which are contained in the prevertebral cylinder of deep cervical fascia. All these muscles are innervated by cervical spinal nerves, and most of these muscles act primarily to move and stabilize the head.  

An instrument commonly used for viewing occlusal and distal surfaces of teeth.  

A microscope by which objects invisible through an ordinary microscope may be seen by means of powerful side illumination.  

The breakdown or decomposition of substances into their simple constituents.  

The fibrinous false membrane on the mucous surfaces in diphtheria.  

One of the membranes formed in the endometrium of a pregnant uterus.