The University of Sydney
Anatomy & Histology
Arnold's Glossary of Anatomy
by Dr. M. A. (Toby) Arnold
Modifications & Additions by Deborah Bryce
This anatomical word search engine is dedicated to the memory of
Maurice (Toby) Arnold
(type full word or first few letters)
: Greek = flayed or skinned.
: Latin declivitas = slope (cf. clivus).
: Latin decussatus = crossed like the letter X.
: further from the surface.
: adjective, Latin = carrying down.
: Latin deglutire = to swallow, hence the act of swallowing.
: Latin de = away, hiscere = to gape, hence, a separation, a splitting away.
: adjective, Greek delta (D). The capital has a triangular shape (cf. the delta of the Nile river).
: or dendron, Greek = a tree, hence like the branches of a tree.
: Latin = tooth (cf. dentist), adjective - dental.
: Latin dens = tooth, hence, having a toothed margin.
: Latin dens = tooth, hence, having small tooth-like projections.
: from Latin dens = tooth; the substance of the tooth surrounding the pulp.
: Latin de = prefix implying descent, and pressum = pressed, hence to press down, and depression = downward movement or a concavity on a surface.
: Greek derma = skin, tome = a cutting or division, hence a segment of skin supplied by a single spinal ganglion.
: Greek = skin, adjective - dermal.
: Latin detrusio = thrust away.
: Greek dia = across, and phragma = wall, hence, a partition, adjective - diaphragmatic (see also phrenic).
: Greek dia = apart, and physis = growth, hence, the body of a long bone between the growing regions near the ends.
: Greek dia = apart, and stellein = sending, hence sending the walls of the heart apart, i.e. relaxation or dilatation. Adjective - diastolic.
: Greek dia = between, and enkephalos = brain, hence in general the structures surrounding the 3rd ventricle. adjective - diencephalic.
: adjective, Greek dia = double, and gaster = belly, hence, 2-bellied.
: Latin digitus = a finger or toe, usually excepting the pollex (thumb) or hallux (big toe), adjective - digital.
: Greek diploos = double, and opsis = vision, hence double vision.
: Greek = fold, hence the cancellous bone between the inner and outer tables of the skull, adjective - diploic.
: Latin = disc.
: Latin disssecare = to cut up, from dis = apart, sectum = cut (c.f. anatomy).
: adjective, Latin di = apart, and stans = standing, hence, standing apart, implying farther from a given point, usually the root of a limb.
: Latin = by-road, hence a blind tubular process or sac.
: adjective, Latin dorsum = back.
: Latin = back.
: Latin = duct.
: Latin duodenarius = twelve, because it is 12 fingerbreadths long.
: adjective, Latin = hard (cf. durable); dura mater, the tough covering membrane of the central nervous system.
: Greek dys = difficult, and phagein = to eat, hence, difficulty in swallowing.