Category: H

The band in the center of the A disk of a sarcomere of striated muscle. During contraction it appears lighter than the remaining portion and in its center, a dark stripe, the M line, is seen.  

Tall columnar cells that form the outer border cells of the organ of Corti of the cochlea.  

A modified Golgi net found in the hair cells of the organ of Corti.  

The weight of a gas dissolved by a given volume of liquid at a constant temperature is directly proportional to the pressure.  

A form of progressive electric chorea.  

Blood in the middle ear, a finding sometimes identified in serious traumatic brain injury.  

Attracted to or having an affinity for blood or blood cells.  

Transplacental passage of nutrients from the maternal bloodstream to the fetal circulation.  

To nutrients carried in the blood.  

Nutrition carried to the developing embryo by the maternal blood.