See Also: substantia ferruginea(medicine)
substantia(dictionary)
substantia(medicine)
substantia vitrea(medicine)
substantia medullaris(medicine)
substantia adamantina(medicine)
substantia nigra(medicine)
substantia reticularis(medicine)
substantia reticulofilamentosa(medicine)
Substantia nigra(health)

dupatta (iou) and substantia ferruginea (medicine)


dupatta (iou)



dupatta noun. E17.
[Hindi dupaa, from do two + paa (piece or strip of cloth) having two breadths.]
A length of material worn as a scarf or head covering, typically with a shalwar-kameez, by women from the Indian subcontinent.

substantia ferruginea (medicine)


substantia ferruginea -->
locus ceruleus


A shallow depression, of a blue colour in the fresh brain, lying laterally in the most rostral portion of the rhomboidal fossa near the cerebral aqueduct; it lies near the lateral wall of the fourth ventricle and consists of about 20,000 melanin-pigmented neuronal cell bodies whose norepinephrine-containing axons have a remarkably wide distribution in the cerebellum as well as in the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex.

Synonym: substantia ferruginea, locus cinereus, locus ferrugineus.