- Chievitz organ
- an embryonic outgrowth behind the parotid gland; sometimes it merges into the gland and sometimes it disappears.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
Chievitz organ
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Chievitz layer organ — Chie·vitz layer, organ (cheґvits) [Johan Henrik Chievitz, Danish anatomist, 1850–1901] see under layer and organ … Medical dictionary
Chievitz — Johan H., Danish anatomist, 1850–1901. See C. layer, C. organ … Medical dictionary
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layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
