See Also: extra-axial(medicine)
Axial(medicine)
Axial(health)
axial(dictionary)
axial surface(medicine)
axial muscle(medicine)
axial neuritis(medicine)
axial plane(medicine)
axial plate(medicine)
axial point(medicine)

gamut (iou) and extra-axial (medicine)


gamut (iou)



gamut noun. LME.
[Contr. of medieval Latin gamma ut, from GAMMA name of the symbol (repr. in the Middle Ages a note one tone lower than A) + UT first of the six notes forming a hexachord.]
I. Music.
Hist. The lowest note on the medieval sequence of hexachords, equal to modern G on the lowest line of the bass stave. LME.
Hist. A large scale (ascribed to Guido d'Arezzo), formed of seven hexachords or partial scales, and containing all the recognized notes used in medieval Music. L15.
The full range of notes which a voice or instrument can produce. M17.
The major diatonic scale; the scale recognized by any particular people or in any period. E18.
II.
transf. & fig. The whole range or scope of something. E17.
C. Beaton Her resonant voice covers the gamut from an emphatic whisper to an..almost Rabelaisian roar.

extra-axial (medicine)


extra-axial


Off the axis; applied to intracerebral lesions that do not arise from the brain itself.