Word Meanings - PERIGANGLIONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.

PERIGANGLIONIC
Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.
SURROUNDING
Inclosing; encircling.
GANGLIONIC
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.
SURROUND
To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
GANGLION
A globular, hard, indolent tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar. (more info) sort of swelling
GANGLIONARY
Ganglionic.
COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
AGANGLIONIC
Without ganglia.
INTERGANGLIONIC
Between and uniting the nervous ganglions; as, interganglionic cords.
LIEBERKUHN'S GLANDS; LIEBERKUEHN'S GLANDS
The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.
PEYER'S GLANDS
Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.