0 a Latin word meaning "process" or "structure in the body", used in medical names and descriptions -- （拉丁语，用于医学术语）突，突起
The number of processus districts was steadily increasing in the next decades, growing from around 400 up to some 450 by 1918.
Accumulation of blood in a persistent processus vaginalis could result in a hematocele.
This "processus ascendens" however, though indeed positioned on the outer side, is low.
The protrusion of peritoneum through the internal inguinal ring can be considered an incomplete obliteration of the processus.
Projecting backward from near the middle of the posterior edge of this plate is an angular process, the processus tubarius, which supports the pharyngeal end of the auditory tube.
The only way to distinguish them is by looking at the "processus hamatus" of the feline scapula, which should have a "processus suprahamatus".
The number of processus was increasing from the 18th century onwards, because the functions of the counties were increasing too.
Persistent patent processus vaginalis is more common on the right than the left.
