Category: T

A hole for the vertebral artery in the transverse process of a cervical vertebra.  

Food products manufactured from various nutritional components made to resemble conventional protein-source foods, such as meat, seafood, or poultry, in texture.  

A spherical or oval subunit of the thyroid gland, made of cuboidal epithelium, which contains colloid and the thyroglobulin and iodine from which thyroxine and triiodothyronine are synthesized.  

Any of the three permanent folds projecting into the lumen of the rectum.  

Microbes inhabiting a body surface or cavity for a brief period of time, usually as a result of their promotion and selection by antibiotic therapy, chemotherapy, hospitalization, illness, or surgery.  

A variety of pedicle flap which is fashioned into a tubular configuration.  

A congenital defect linking the trachea and the esophagus, resulting from failure of the lungs to separate from the gastrointestinal tract during embryological development. Surgery is needed to prevent recurring episodes of aspiration pneumonia in the newborn.  

A midline fistula just above the thyroid that connects the openings in the skin to a persistent embryonic thyroglossal duct.  

The fissure between the cerebellum and cerebrum.  

The phenotypic appearance of female sexual characteristics in a person who is genetically male (i.e., whose sex chromosomes are XY). This rare condition is caused by cell receptor defects that prevent testosterone and dihydrotestosterone from acting on somatic tissues. The external genitalia are rudimentary, and the testicles may be in the abdomen.