See Also: fimbriae, bacterial(medicine)
ruga(medicine)
ruga(dictionary)
ruga gastrica(medicine)
ruga palatina(medicine)
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fimbriae(medicine)
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fimbriae of uterine tube(medicine)

ruga palatina (medicine) and fimbriae, bacterial (medicine)


ruga palatina (medicine)


ruga palatina -->
transverse palatine fold


A masticatory vestige on the hard palate; one of several irregular, sometimes branching, crests of soft tissue that radiate from the region of the incisive papillae at their most anterior parts and extend a slight distance backward, crossing the hard palate and reaching laterally for variable distances.

Synonym: plica palatina transversa, ruga palatina, transverse palatine ridge.


fimbriae, bacterial (medicine)


fimbriae, bacterial
Thin, hairlike appendages, 1 to 20 microns in length and often occurring in large numbers, present on the cells of gram-negative bacteria, particularly enterobacteriaceae and neisseria. Unlike flagella, they do not possess motility, but being protein (pilin) in Nature, they possess antigenic and haemagglutinating properties. They are of medical importance because some fimbriae mediate the attachment of bacteria to cells via adhesins (adhesins, bacterial). Bacterial fimbriae refer to common pili, to be distinguished from the preferred use of "pili", which is confined to sex pili (pili, sex).