fornix in English

noun
1
a vaulted or arched structure in the body, in particular.
The fornices should be palpated around the cervix for nodules suggestive of endometriosis, and may also be the etiology for fixed adnexa or may result from pelvic inflammatory disease.

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1. 16 Objective:To confirm the clinicopathologic changes of the fornix in vernal conjunctivitis.

2. Exfoliative cells from lip, tongue, cervix uteri, fornix vaginae and scrotum are described morphologically.

3. We report on the outcome of ocular surface and fornix reconstruction using amnion membrane transplantation.

4. It is divided into 3 parts, Palpebral or tarsal Conjunctiva, Bulbar or ocular Conjunctiva, and Fornix Conjunctiva

5. In mind, there are five Commissures, which are habenular commissure, anterior commissure, corpus callosum, posterior commissure, and commissure of fornix

6. The Conjunctiva extends from the corneal limbus over the eye ball and, by forming the (upper and lower) fold of the fornix, onto the posterior surface of the eye lids.

7. Twenty were nodular and five were diffuse involving the limbus Circumferentially.There was involvement of Limbus in 3, limbus and cornea in 5, fornix in 1, medial canthus in 15, bulbar conjunctiva in 1 animal.

8. It is itself composed of the limbal Conjunctiva, which is fused with the episclera at the limbus and the scleral Conjunctiva, which extends from the limbal Conjunctiva to the fornix.

9. Amnesiacs with hippocampal (Squire, Zola-Morgan & Chen, 1988) or fornix (Gaffan, 1994) damage have difficulty with long delays between the sample and onset of the test phase, but can learn the nonmatching rule

10. Conjunctival Concretions (Conjunctival lithiasis) are small vascular, granular, yellowish-white deposits being produced due to conjunctival degeneration and are found in the sub-epithelium of palpebral conjunctiva and fornix (junction between palpebral and bulbar conjunctiva) in the elderly group or in patients with chronic inflammatory conditions.

11. The most common usage of the term refers to the brain's Commissures, of which there are five—the anterior commissure, posterior commissure, corpus callosum, hippocampal commissure (commissure of fornix), and habenular commissure—and which consist of fibre tracts that connect the two cerebral hemispheres and span the longitudinal fissure.