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The Farlex Medical Dictionary (2012) describes the masseteric fascia as a fascia covering the superficial surface of the masseter muscle, [3] and the parotideomasseteric fascia as a dense membrane covering both surfaces of the parotid gland that is anteriorly continuous with the masseteric fascia. [4]
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.
A fold of peritoneum, the phrenicocolic ligament is continued from the left colic flexure to the thoracic diaphragm opposite the tenth and eleventh ribs; it passes below and serves to support the spleen, and therefore has received the name of sustentaculum lienis.
Medical coding – The practice of assigning statistical codes to medical statements, such as those made during a hospital stay. Closely related to medical billing . Medical College Admission Test – (MCAT), is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students in the United States , Australia , [ 256 ] Canada , and ...
Medical Wikipedia is a mobile app which provides offline access to health information on Wikipedia.It is an instance of the Wikipedia arm of Kiwix.. On June 10th, 2015 Wiki Project Med Foundation and Wikimedia Switzerland launched an android app that contains all of the English Wikipedia's health care content: including medical, anatomy, medication, and sanitation related articles as tagged by ...
Magill forceps are angled forceps used to guide a tracheal tube into the larynx or a nasogastric tube into the esophagus under direct vision. [1] They are also used to remove foreign bodies. [1]