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 |
crossopterygian
lobefin
lobe-finned fish | any fish of the order Crossopterygii, most known only in fossil form |
| lobe | a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure |
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 |
abducens muscle
lateral rectus muscle
lateral rectus
rectus lateralis | the ocular muscle whose contraction turns the eyeball outward |
earlobe
ear lobe | the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear |
| hepatic lobe | any of the five lobes forming the liver |
| lobe of the lung | any of the three lobes of the right lung or the two lobes of the left lung |
| 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 |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
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 |
| lobe | (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part, ear lobe |
frontal lobe
frontal cortex | that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying directly behind the forehead |
prefrontal lobe
prefrontal cortex | the anterior part of the frontal lobe |
parietal lobe
parietal cortex | that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying below the crown of the head |
occipital lobe
occipital cortex | that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying in the back of the head |
temporal lobe
temporal ccortex | that part of the cerebral cortex in either hemisphere of the brain lying inside the temples of the head |
| lateral ventricle | either of two horseshoe-shaped ventricles one in each cerebral hemisphere, they communicate with the third ventricle via the foramen of Monro |
| lateral thinking | a heuristic for solving problems, you try to look at the problem from many angles instead of tackling it head-on |
| lobe | the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern |
| major lobe | the maximum lobe in the radiation pattern which is intended to be along the forward axis and which gives the effect of a beam |
| lobe | (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided |
psychomotor epilepsy
temporal lobe epilepsy | epilepsy characterized clinically by impairment of consciousness and amnesia for the episode, often involves purposeful movements of the arms and legs and sometimes hallucinations |
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) |
| 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 |