See Also: intergemmal(medicine)

undulose (iou) and intergemmal (medicine)


undulose (iou)



undulose adjective. L19.
[formed as UNDULOUS + -OSE1.]
Chiefly Geology. Designating extinction of polarized light that occurs in strips which move across the field of view of a microscope as the stage holding a specimen is turned. Chiefly in undulose extinction.

intergemmal (medicine)


intergemmal


Between any two or more budlike or bulblike bodies such as the taste buds; denoting especially a nerve termination between two end bulbs.

Origin: inter-+ L. Gemma, bud