lateral pass
lateral | a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer |
lateral line
lateral line organ | sense organs of fish and amphibians, believed to detect pressure changes in the water |
| Caledonian Canal | a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end, now little used |
| Caloosahatchee Canal | a canal that connects Lake Okeechobee with the Caloosahatchee River in southern Florida to form part of the Cross-Florida Waterway |
| canal | long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation |
canal boat
narrow boat
narrowboat | a long boat that carries freight and is narrow enough to be used in canals |
| Gota Canal | a canal for small oceangoing ships to enter Lake Vanern in Sweden |
| Panama Canal | a ship canalmiles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (-) |
ship canal
shipway | a canal large enough for seagoing vessels |
fissure of Sylvius
Sylvian fissure
lateral cerebral sulcus
sulcus lateralis cerebri | the deepest and most prominent of the cortical fissures, separates the frontal lobes and temporal lobes in both hemispheres |
| birth canal | a passage in the uterus and vagina through which a fetus passes during vaginal birth |
auditory meatus
acoustic meatus
ear canal
auditory canal
external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
spinal canal
vertebral canal
canalis vertebralis | the canal in successive vertebrae through which the spinal cord passes |
duct
epithelial duct
canal
channel | a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance, the tear duct was obstructed, the alimentary canal, poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs |
canal of Schlemm
Schlemm's canal
sinus venosus sclerae | a circular canal in the eye that drains aqueous humor from the anterior chamber of the eye into the anterior ciliary veins |
| root canal | the passage in the root of a tooth through which its nerve and blood vessels enter the pulp cavity |
abducens muscle
lateral rectus muscle
lateral rectus
rectus lateralis | the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward |
| semicircular canal | one of three tube loops filled with fluid and in planes nearly at right angles with one another, concerned with equilibrium |
| Haversian canal | any of the many tiny canals that contain blood vessels and connective tissue and that form a network in bone |
inguinal canal
canalis inguinalis | oblique passage through the lower abdominal wall, in males it is the passage through which the testes descend into the scrotum and it contains the spermatic cord, in females it transmits the round ligament of the uterus |
| lateral condyle | a condyle on the outer side of the lower extremity of the femur |
| lateral epicondyle | epicondyle near the lateral condyle of the femur |
lateral geniculate body
corpus geniculatum laterale
lateral geniculate | a neural structure that serves as a processing station on the way from the retina to the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex |
| lateral ventricle | either of two horseshoe-shaped ventricles one in each cerebral hemisphere, they communicate with the third ventricle via the foramen of Monro |
cervical canal
canalis cervicis uteri | a spindle-shaped canal extending from the uterus to the vagina |
alimentary canal
alimentary tract
digestive tube
digestive tract
gastrointestinal tract
GI tract | tubular passage of mucous membrane and muscle extending about . meters from mouth to anus, functions in digestion and elimination |
| lateral thinking | a heuristic for solving problems, you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on |
| Grand Canal | an inland waterway miles long in eastern China, extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south |
Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone | a zone consisting of a strip of land across the Isthmus of Panama that contains the Panama Canal |
| Grand Canal | the major waterway in Venice, Italy |
| Suez Canal | a ship canal in northeastern Egypt linking the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea |
| Cape Cod Canal | a canal connecting Cape Cod Bay with Buzzards Bay |
| Erie Canal | an artificial waterway connecting the Hudson river at Albany with Lake Erie at Buffalo, built in the th century, now part of the New York State Barge Canal |
| New York State Barge Canal | a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain |
| canal | (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels, they are now believed to be an optical illusion |
Elbe
Elbe River | a river in central Europe that arises in northwestern Czechoslovakia and flows northward through Germany to empty into the North Sea |
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
ALS
Lou Gehrig's disease | thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord, results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs |
tennis elbow
lateral epicondylitis
lateral humeral epicondylitis | painful inflammation of the tendon at the outer border of the elbow resulting from overuse of lower arm muscles (as in twisting of the hand) |
canal
canalize
canalise | provide (a city) with a canal |
| lateral | lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body, lateral lemniscus |
lateral
sidelong | situated at or extending to the side, the lateral branches of a tree, shot out sidelong boughs- Tennyson |