See Also: Pirogoff, Nikolai(medicine)
Pirogoff's triangle(medicine)
Pirogoff's angle(medicine)
Pirogoff's amputation(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Alkalosis(health)
alkalosis(dictionary)
Alkalosis(medicine)
uncompensated alkalosis(medicine)
alkalosis, respiratory(medicine)

Pirogoff's angle (medicine) and Alkalosis (medicine)


Pirogoff's angle (medicine)


Pirogoff's angle -->
venous angle


The junction of the internal jugular and subclavian veins, toward which converge the external and the anterior jugular and the vertebral veins, the thoracic duct in the left angle and the right lymphatic duct in the right angle.

Synonym: Pirogoff's angle.

In neuroradiology, the angle of union of the superior thalamostriate vein (vena terminalis) with the internal cerebral vein, usually closely behind the interventricular foramen of Monro.


Alkalosis (medicine)


alkalosis
<biochemistry> A pathologic condition resulting from accumulation of base or from loss of acid without comparable loss of base in the body fluids and characterised by decrease in hydrogen ion concentration (increase in pH).

Compare: acidosis.