Category: P

  • Periotic

    Around the ear. Referring to the area around the ear, especially the bones around the inner ear.  

  • Periorchium

    Tissue surrounding a testicle.  

  • Periorbita

    Tissue lining eye socket.  

  • Perioral

    Around the mouth.  

  • Perionyxis

    Perionyxis

    Skin around a fingernail or toenail. Inflammation of the epidermis surrounding a nail.  

  • Periocular

    Around the eye.  

  • Perineurium

    The sheath around each bundle of nerve fibers. Connective tissue which surrounds bundles of nerve fibres. Connective tissue covering around bundles of nerve fibers. The sheath of connective tissue that surrounds individual bundles (fascicles) of nerve fibers within a large nerve. A connective tissue sheath investing a fasciculus or bundle of nerve fibers.  

  • Perinephrium

    Tissues surrounding the kidney. The fatty tissue that is around a kidney. The connective and fatty tissue surrounding the kidney.  

  • Perineauxesis

    Repair of floor of pelvic cavity through vagina.  

  • Perineal

    Floor of pelvic cavity or area between external genitals and anus. Referring to the perineum. The perineum refers to the diamond-shaped area of the body situated between the pubic arch and the anus.