Medical Glossary

Fascialata graft

A graft-covering or repair of tissue with fascia - the fibrous membrane which covers and separates muscles, organs.

Fasciculations

Involuntary contractions, or twitching of groups of muscle fibers, a courser form of muscle contractions than fibrillation.

Filum Terminale

A long slender filament at the end of the spinal cord.

Foramen

An opening usually in a bone or organ of membrane (plural is foramina).

Foramen Magnum

A large opening in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord becomes continuous with the medulla oblongata.

Foramina of Luschka

An opening or passage - lateral of the fourth ventricle

Fossa

A depression on the surface of the end of a bone.

Fourth ventricle

Ventricle (a normal cavity) of the rhombencephalon of the brain; a cavity of irregular tent-like shape extending from the obex frontward to its communication with the sylvian aqueduct, enclosed...
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