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basic diet (medicine)


basic diet -->
alkaline-ash diet


A diet consisting mainly of fruits, Vegetables, and milk (with minimal amounts of meat, fish, eggs, cheese, and cereals), which, when catabolised, leave an alkaline residue to be excreted in the urine.

Synonym: acid-ash diet, basic diet.


frontopontine tract (medicine)


frontopontine tract


A large group of fibres arising from the frontal lobe of the cerebral hemisphere, especially the precentral gyrus, descending in the capsula interna, farther caudally composing the medial part of the crus cerebri in which they extend caudalward to end in the gray matter (pontine nuclei) of the ventral part of the pons.

Synonym: tractus frontopontinus.