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5 +2 | ventral face of the dural sac |
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4 | ventral surface of the dural sac |
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ventral surface of the dural sac Explanation: A possibility.... Right: Intradiscal view showing the ventral surface of the dural sac following the extraction of a sequestered disc fragment. Reference: http://www.spineuniverse.com/professional/research/neurologi... |
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ventral face of the dural sac Explanation: 61,000 refs for "ventral face". We had a discussion about this recently. 'Face' is not a calque in this context. It is a medical term. It is used in the technical sense of describing the sides of a solid geometric form, which is not the same as the surface. For example, in describing a cube such as a gambling di, the operative concept is the particular face, not the 'surface'. You speak about the face that has the 5 dots on it, not the surface. The following examples are from medeical texts by English-speaking authors: The question is, whether the face of the bone which is exposed is its outer (or dorsal) or its inner (or ventral) face. In the former case it must needs be ... aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/SM3/Arche.html ventral face of the nucleus lenticularis, and the various relations which ... external segment of the globus pallidus appears, the ventral face of the ... brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/37/3-4/433.pdf Cyclonephelium chabaca; length, 78 um; ventral face, interior ... Cyclonephelium distinctum; length, 68 um; ventral face; slide 1: Z 39; ... www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/101_SR/.../sr101_correction.pdf the ventral face of the median body {nib) between the posterior poles of the 2 nuclei. (n). The free ventral fiagella (us) execute part of a sinusoidal ... jcs.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/11.pdf by Gary A. Polis - 1990 - Science - 587 pages 3.5D); ventral face of pedipalp chela distinctly flattened (owing to ... pedipalp patella with 2 ventral trichobothria; ventral face of pedipalp chela ... books.google.com/books?isbn=0804712492... by TP Naidich - 1983 - Cited by 73 - Related articles ventral face of placode. (figs. 1 and 2). The pia and arachnoid, in fact, represent ... sac, and like the dural sac, ends at the dorsal root entry ... www.ajronline.org/cgi/reprint/140/6/1065.pdf |
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