See Also: Dupuytren's fascia(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Dupuytren(dictionary)
dupuytren's contracture(medicine)
Dupuytren's tourniquet(medicine)
Dupuytren, Guillaume(encyclopedia)
Dupuytren's suture(medicine)
Dupuytren's sign(medicine)
Dupuytren's hydrocele(medicine)
Dupuytren's fracture(medicine)

nopal (medicine) and Dupuytren's fascia (medicine)


nopal (medicine)


nopal
<botany> A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to Other species of Cactaceae.

Origin: Mexican nopalli.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Dupuytren's fascia (medicine)


Dupuytren's fascia -->
palmar aponeurosis


The thickened, central portion of the fascia ensheathing the hand; it radiates toward the bases of the fingers from the tendon of the palmaris longus muscle.

Synonym: aponeurosis palmaris, Dupuytren's fascia, palmar fascia.