- Tenon capsule (fascia membrane) space
- Te·non capsule (fascia, membrane), space (tə-nawґ) [Jacques Renй Tenon, French surgeon, 1724–1816] see vagina bulbi and spatium intervaginale.
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Tenon capsule (fascia membrane) space
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membrane — 1. A thin sheet or layer of pliable tissue, serving as a covering or envelope of a part, as the lining of a cavity, as a partition or septum, or to connect two structures. SYN: membrana [TA]. 2. SYN: biomembrane. [L. membrana, a skin or m … Medical dictionary
space — Any demarcated portion of the body, either an area of the surface, a segment of the tissues, or a cavity. SEE ALSO: area, region, zone. SYN: spatium [TA]. [L. spatium, room, s.] alveolar dead s … Medical dictionary
Tenon's capsule — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = 227 GrayPage = 1024 Caption = The right eye in sagittal section, showing the fascia bulbi (semidiagrammatic). Caption2 = System = Precursor = MeshName = MeshNumber = DorlandsPre = t 04… … Wikipedia
capsule of Tenon — Tenonian Te*no ni*an, a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. [1913 Webster] {Tenonian capsule} (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tenonian capsule — Tenonian Te*no ni*an, a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. [1913 Webster] {Tenonian capsule} (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sheath — 1. Any enveloping structure, such as the membranous covering of a muscle, nerve, or blood vessel. Any sheathlike structure. SYN: vagina (1). 2. The prepuce of male animals, especially of the horse. 3. A specially designed tu … Medical dictionary
Hernia — A general term referring to a protrusion of a tissue through the wall of the cavity in which it is normally contained. More specifically, a hernia often refers to an opening or weakness in the muscular structure of the wall of the abdomen. This… … Medical dictionary
Tenonian — Te*no ni*an, a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist. [1913 Webster] {Tenonian capsule} (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the fat of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
