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Rosenmuller(dictionary)
Rosenmuller's recess(medicine)
rosenmuller's organ(medicine)
organ of Rosenmuller(medicine)
Rosenmuller, Johann(medicine)
Rosenmuller's valve(medicine)
Rosenmuller's node(medicine)
Rosenmuller's gland(medicine)
Rosenmuller's fossa(medicine)

Rosenmuller's recess (medicine) and retinal(2) (iou)


Rosenmuller's recess (medicine)


Rosenmuller's recess -->
pharyngeal recess


A slitlike depression in the membranous (non-muscular) pharyngeal wall extending posterior to the opening of the auditory (eustachian) tube.

Synonym: recessus pharyngeus, recessus infundibuliformis, Rosenmuller's fossa, Rosenmuller's recess.


retinal(2) (iou)



retinal noun. M20.
[from RETINA + -AL2.]
Biochemistry. Either of two closely related yellow carotenoids which are the aldehydes of vitamins A1 and A2 (retinol) and occur in the retina combined with opsin as the visual pigment rhodopsin; esp. the aldehyde of vitamin A1. Also called retinene.
Also reti'naldehyde noun M20.