See Also: intermuscular gluteal bursa(medicine)
intermuscular(medicine)
intermuscular septum(medicine)
gluteal(medicine)
gluteal reflex(medicine)
gluteal furrow(medicine)
gluteal tuberosity(medicine)
gluteal ridge(medicine)
gluteal region(medicine)
gluteal line(medicine)

vaccine (iou) and intermuscular gluteal bursa (medicine)


vaccine (iou)



vaccine adjective & noun. L18.
[Latin vaccinus (as used in mod. Latin variolae vaccinus cowpox, virus vaccinus cowpox vaccine), from vacca cow: see -INE1.]
A. adjective (now rare).
Medicine. Designating, appearing in, or characteristic of the disease of cowpox; designating or pertaining to the causative agent of cowpox. L18.
Of, or pertaining to, or derived from cows. E19.
b. noun.
Medicine. A preparation of the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, that has been specially treated for use in vaccination; orig. spec., a preparation of vaccinia (cowpox) for inoculation against smallpox. E19.
Hib vaccine, Sabin vaccine, Salk vaccine, etc. triple vaccine: see TRIPLE adjective & adverb.
Computing. A program designed to protect a computer system from the effect of destructive Software such as a virus. Also vaccine program. L20.
Special collocations & comb.: vaccine damage harm, esp. serious, caused by a vaccine. vaccine-damaged adjective subjected to vaccine damage. vaccine disease = cowpox s.v. COW noun1. vaccine lymph, vaccine matter an extract containing the causative agent of cowpox, formerly employed in vaccination. vaccine program: see sense B.2 above. vaccine therapy treatment of a disease with an appropriate vaccine.

intermuscular gluteal bursa (medicine)


intermuscular gluteal bursa -->
gluteofemoral bursa
<anatomy> Two or three small bursae between the tendon of the gluteus maximus and the linea aspera.

Synonym: bursa intermuscularis musculorum gluteorum, intermuscular gluteal bursa.