caudate

caudate
a) Tapering into a long, tail-like extension at the apex.
b) Having a tail; Of or pertaining to the Caudata order of amphibians

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  • Caudate — (Latin for tail, and closely related to caudal and coda) can refer to: * Caudate nucleus * Caudate lobe of liver * Cauda equina * Members of the Caudata order …   Wikipedia

  • Caudate — Cau date, Caudated Cau da*ted a. [L. cauda tail.] Having a tail; having a terminal appendage like a tail. Opposite of {acaudate}. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5] || …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • caudate — [kô′dāt΄] adj. [ModL < L cauda, tail + ATE1] having a tail or taillike part: also caudated …   English World dictionary

  • caudate nucleus — n the one of the four basal ganglia in each cerebral hemisphere that comprises a mass of gray matter in the corpus striatum, forms part of the floor of the lateral ventricle, and is separated from the lentiform nucleus by the internal capsule… …   Medical dictionary

  • Caudate nucleus — Brain: Caudate nucleus Transverse Cut of Brain (Horizontal Section), basal ganglia is blue Latin nucleus caudatus Gray s …   Wikipedia

  • Caudate lobe of liver — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = segment hepatis posterius I, lobus caudatus GraySubject = 250 GrayPage = 1192 Caption = Posterior and inferior surfaces of the liver. (Caudate lobe visible at center top.) Caption2 = 1: Right lobe of liver… …   Wikipedia

  • Caudate sonnet — A caudate sonnet is an expanded version of the sonnet. It consists of 14 lines in standard sonnet forms followed by a coda (Latin cauda meaning tail , from which the name is derived). The invention of the form is credited to Francesco Berni.… …   Wikipedia

  • caudate nucleus — noun a tail shaped basal ganglion located in a lateral ventricle of the brain • Syn: ↑caudate • Derivationally related forms: ↑caudate (for: ↑caudate) • Hypernyms: ↑basal ganglion …   Useful english dictionary

  • caudate nucleus — noun Date: 1902 the most medial of the four basal ganglia in each cerebral hemisphere called also caudate …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • caudate nucleus — The most frontal of the basal ganglia in the brain. Damage to caudate neurons is characteristic of Huntington&’s chorea and other motor disorders …   Dictionary of molecular biology

  • caudate lobe — cau·date lobe .kȯ .dāt n a lobe of the liver bounded on the right by the inferior vena cava, on the left by the fissure of the ductus venosus, and connected with the right lobe by a narrow prolongation called also spigelian lobe * * * caudate… …   Medical dictionary

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