pterygopalatine fissure
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Pterygopalatine fossa — Infobox Bone Name = Pterygopalatine fossa Latin = fossa pterygopalatina GraySubject = 41 GrayPage = 166 Caption = Left maxillary sinus opened from the exterior. Caption2 = Old human skull with entrance to pterygopalatine fossa marked in purple… … Wikipedia
Fissure — A cleft or groove. A fissure can be normal or abnormal. A fissure in the cerebral cortex is a normal feature. It is a deep fold that involves the entire thickness of the brain wall. A fissure in the anus is distinctly abnormal. It is a painful… … Medical dictionary
pterygopalatine — adjective Of or pertaining to the indented area medial to the pterygomaxillary fissure leading into the sphenopalatine foramen … Wiktionary
Pterygomaxillary fissure — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = fissura pterygomaxillaris GraySubject = 46 GrayPage = 185 Caption = Left infratemporal fossa. (Pterygomaxillary fissure labeled at bottom left.) Caption2 = System = MeshName = MeshNumber = DorlandsPre = f… … Wikipedia
fissura pterygomaxillaris — [TA] pterygomaxillary fissure: a cleft just posterior to the inferior orbital fissure between the lateral pterygoid plate and the maxilla; called also pterygopalatine fissure … Medical dictionary
Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery — (FESS) is a surgical modality for some diseases of the nose and paranasal sinuses. It is a relatively recent surgical procedure that uses the help of nasal endoscopes (which make use of Hopkins rod lens telescopes): these are endoscopes which… … Wikipedia
Nerve — A bundle of fibers that uses electrical and chemical signals to transmit sensory and motor information from one body part to another. See nervous system. * * * A whitish cordlike structure composed of one or more bundles (fascicles) of myelinated … Medical dictionary
Maxillary nerve — Nerve: Maxillary nerve Alveolar branches of superior maxillary nerve and pterygopalatine ganglion. Latin n. maxillaris Gray s … Wikipedia
nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… … Universalium
branch — An offshoot; in anatomy, one of the primary divisions of a nerve or blood vessel. A b.. See ramus, artery, nerve, vein. SYN: ramus (1) [TA]. accessory meningeal b. SYN: pterygomeningeal artery … Medical dictionary
