See Also: apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti(medicine)
apertura mediana ventriculi quarti(medicine)
vena ventriculi lateralis lateralis(medicine)
plexus choroideus ventriculi lateralis(medicine)
vena ventriculi lateralis medialis(medicine)
cornu posterius ventriculi lateralis(medicine)
foramen lateralis ventriculi quarti(medicine)
ramus choroidei ventriculi lateralis(medicine)
cornu inferius ventriculi lateralis(medicine)
recessus lateralis ventriculi quarti(medicine)

apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti (medicine) and microcosmical (medicine)


apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti (medicine)


apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti -->
lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle


One of the two lateral openings of the fourth ventricle into the subarachnoid space at the cerebellopontine angle.

Synonym: apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti, foramen lateralis ventriculi quarti, foramen of Key-Retzius, foramen of Luschka, Retzius' foramen.


microcosmical (medicine)


microcosmical


Of or pertaining to the microcosm.

<chemistry> Microcosmic salt, a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic-ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.

Origin: Cf. F. Microcosmique.

Source: Websters Dictionary