See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Hensen, Victor(medicine)
Hensen's stripe(medicine)
Hensen's node(medicine)
Hensen's line(medicine)
Hensen's knot(medicine)
Hensen's duct(medicine)
Hensen's disk(medicine)
Hensen's cell(medicine)
Hensen's canal(medicine)

Hensen's node (medicine) and TNM staging (health)


Hensen's node (medicine)


Hensen's node -->
primitive node


A local thickening of the blastoderm at the cephalic end of the primitive streak of the embryo.

Synonym: Hensen's knot, Hensen's node, Hubrecht's protochordal knot, primitive knot, protochordal knot.


TNM staging (health)


Assigning a stage to the tumor based on size, local versus disseminated growth, lymph node involvement and presence or absence of distant metastases.