See Also: arteria cerebri media(medicine)
vena cerebri media superficialis(medicine)
vena cerebri media profunda(medicine)
arteria cerebri anterior(medicine)
arteria cerebri posterior(medicine)
pars postcommunicalis arteria cerebri anterior(medicine)
arteria colica media(medicine)
arteria collateralis media(medicine)
arteria meningea media(medicine)
arteria temporalis media(medicine)

hamstring (iou) and arteria cerebri media (medicine)


hamstring (iou)



hamstring noun & verb. M16.
[from HAM noun1 + STRING noun.]
A. noun. In humans, apes, etc., each of the five tendons at the back of the knee; in quadrupeds, the great tendon at the back of the hock. M16.
B. verb trans. Pa. t. & pple -strung , (now rare) -stringed. Lame or disable (a person or animal) by cutting the hamstrings; fig. destroy the activity or Efficiency of. M17.
T. H. White They were crawling along the roads on hands and knees, because they had been hamstrung. A. Storr I know of no creative person who was more hamstrung by his inability to write.

arteria cerebri media (medicine)


arteria cerebri media -->
middle cerebral artery
<anatomy, artery> One of the two large terminal branches (with anterior cerebral artery) of the internal carotid artery; it passes laterally around the pole of the temporal lobe, then posteriorly in the depth of the lateral cerebral fissure; for descriptive purposes it is divided into three parts: 1) the sphenoidal part (M1 segment of clinical terminology), supplying perforating branches to the internal capsule, thalamus, and striate body; 2) the insular part, supplying branches to the insula and adjacent cortical areas; and 3) the terminal part or cortical part, supplying a large part of the central cortical convexity (the latter two collectively forming M2 segment).

Synonym: arteria cerebri media.