See Also: commissura alba(medicine)
commissura ventralis alba(medicine)
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alba(dictionary)
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linea alba(medicine)
lochia alba(medicine)
materia alba(medicine)

buttress (sh) and commissura alba (medicine)


buttress (sh)




Exterior support, usually of masonry, projecting from the face of a wall and serving to strengthen it or resist outward thrust from an arch or roof.

Buttresses also have a decorative function. Though used since ancient times (Mesopotamian temples featured decorative buttresses, as did Roman and Byzantine structures), they are especially associated with Gothic architecture. See also flying buttress.


commissura alba (medicine)


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white commissure


A narrow band of white substance bordering on the anterior median fissure of the spinal cord in front of the anterior gray commissure, and consisting of nerve fibres crossing over from one half of the spinal cord to the Other.

Synonym: commissura alba, anterior white commissure, commissura ventralis alba, ventral white column.