See Also: transverse velum(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
velum(dictionary)
Velum(medicine)
velum tarini(medicine)
velum triangulare(medicine)
velum transversum(medicine)
velum terminale(medicine)
velum palatinum(medicine)
velum semilunare(medicine)

bathe (medicine) and transverse velum (medicine)


bathe (medicine)


bathe


1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. "Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus." (South)

2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain."

3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. "And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood." (Shak)

4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " . "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." .

Origin: OE. Baien, AS. Baian, fr. Bae bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.

Source: Websters Dictionary


transverse velum (medicine)


transverse velum


A fold in the dorsal wall of the embryonic brain at the boundary between the telencephalon and diencephalon.

Synonym: velum transversum.