0 a Latin word meaning "dorsal" (= relating to the back or top surface of an organ), used in medical names and descriptions
With confidential registration diseases such as syphilis (including tabes dorsalis and dementia paralytica) suddenly appeared to be more widespread than in previous years.
Under binocular examination, it becomes evident that the preserved dorsal margin does not represent the margo dorsalis of the crest.
This evidently belongs to the dorsalis group, but the description is not full enough for purposes of tabulation.
There was some recovery in all patients with an incomplete clinical picture of tabes dorsalis.
As noted above, the area dorsalis is the portion of the retina that pigeons apparently used for viewing the discriminative stimuli used in our behavioral task.
He made early observations associated with syphilis to tabes dorsalis (nerve fiber and nerve cell degeneration).
The bones of the braincase are largely inaccessible but a small inner ear opening, the "recessus tympanicus dorsalis", is visible.
Specifically, the muscle that causes abduction of the arytenoid cartilage, the cricoarytenoideus dorsalis muscle, ceases to function.
