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Anatomical Terms-V

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2020-07-15 09:09:07

<LI><A name=vagina>vagina</A>: Latin = sheath; hence, invagination is the acquisition of a sheath by pushing inwards into a membrane, and evagination is similar but produced by pushing outwards. 
<LI><A name=vagus>vagus</A>: Latin = wandering; hence, cranial nerve X, which leaves the head and neck to traverse the thorax and upper part of the abdomen. 
<LI><A name=valgus>valgus</A>: Latin = knock-kneed. 
<LI><A name=vallate>vallate</A>: Latin vallatus = walled; hence, the large papillae on the tongue which are depressed below the surface and are surrounded by a groove which is itself bounded by a wall. 
<LI><A name=vallecula>vallecula</A>: diminutive of Latin vallis = a fossa. 
<LI><A name=valve>valve</A>: Latin valva = the segment of a folding-door. 
<LI><A name=valvula>valvula</A>: diminutive of Latin valva. 
<LI><A name=varicocoele>varicocoele</A>: Latin varix = vein and Greek kele = tumour, hernia, hence a varicose condition of the veins of the pampiniform plexus. 
<LI><A name=varus>varus</A>: Latin = bow-legged. 
<LI><A name=vas>vas</A>: Latin = vessel (plural = vasa). 
<LI><A name=vascular>vascular</A>: Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas; hence, pertaining to blood vessels. 
<LI><A name=vastus>vastus</A>: Latin = great, vast, extensive. 
<LI><A name=vein>vein</A>: Latin vena; adjective - venous. 
<LI><A name=velum>velum</A>: Latin = curtain; veli = of a curtain. 
<LI><A name=venter>venter</A>: Latin = belly; hence, ventral, pertaining to the belly side. 
<LI><A name=ventricle>ventricle</A>: diminutive of Latin venter = a small belly. 
<LI><A name=vermiform>vermiform</A>: Latin vermis = a worm, and forma = shape; hence, worm-shaped. 
<LI><A name=vermis>vermis</A>: Latin = worm; hence, the segmented median part of the cerebellum. 
<LI><A name=vertebra>vertebra</A>: Latin verto = I turn; hence, one of the movable bones of the backbone which seems to be shaped for rotation. 
<LI><A name=vertex>vertex</A>: Latin = summit; hence the highest point on the skull. 
<LI><A name=vertical>vertical</A>: perpendicular (at a right angle) to the horizontal. 
<LI><A name=vesica>vesica</A>: Latin = bladder, adjective - vesical. 
<LI><A name=vesicle>vesicle</A>: diminutive of Latin vesica = bladder, hence a little bladder. 
<LI><A name=vesicula>vesicula</A>: diminutive of Latin vesica = bladder; seminal vesicle. 
<LI><A name=vestibule>vestibule</A>: Latin vestibulum = entrance hall. 
<LI><A name=vibrissa>vibrissa</A>: Latin vibrare = to vibrate; hence, the hairs in the nasal vestibule which vibrate in the current of air. 
<LI><A name=villus>villus</A>: Latin a hair; hence, a vascular, hair-like process, usually projecting from a mucous surface. 
<LI><A name=vincula>vincula</A>: Latin = fetters (singular - vinculum); hence, the delicate vascular synovial bands passing to a tendon in the digits. 
<LI><A name=visceral>visceral</A>: adjective, Latin viscus = an internal organ. 
<LI><A name=viscus>viscus</A>: Latin = an internal organ, plural - viscera, adjective - visceral. 
<LI><A name=vital>vital</A>: Latin vita = life. 
<LI><A name=vitelline>vitelline</A>: Latin vitellus = yolk. 
<LI><A name=vitreous>vitreous</A>: Latin vitreus = glassy. 
<LI><A name=vocal>vocal</A>: adjective, Latin vox = voice. 
<LI><A name=vomer>vomer</A>: Latin = plough-share; hence, the bone of the nasal septum which is split in two at its upper edge. 
<LI><A name=vorticosae>vorticosae</A>: Latin vortex = whirl; hence the whirl-like arrangement of the 4 venae vorticosae leaving the eyeball. 
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<DIV><A name=vulva>vulva</A>: Latin = the external female genitalia. </DIV></LI>
* By Dr.M.A.(Toby) Arnold