adnexa eye definition
Reload the page to try again! Press Cmd-0 to reset your zoom. Press Ctrl-0 to reset your zoom. It looks like your browser might be zoomed in or out. Your browser needs to be zoomed to a normal size to record audio. Ancillary structures to main structure. Among health professionals, adnexa usually refers to the fallopian tubes, broad and round uterine ligaments and the ovaries, considered together. Cilia (or eyelashes). Relatively short hairs growing from the margin of each eyelid. Approximately 100-150 in each upper lid and about half that number in each lower lid. Eyelashes serve primarily to protect the eye from foreign objects. Etymology: L, adnectere, to tie together. tissue or structures in the body adjacent to or near another, related structure. The ovaries and the fallopian tubes are adnexa of the uterus. Also called annexa. adnexal, adj. adnexa. (biology). Subordinate or accessory parts, such as eyelids, Fallopian tubes, and extraembryonic membranes. 1  Facebook. 2  Twitter. Risk-reducing salpingectomy by Pierce, Stuart R.; Clarke-Pearson, Daniel L. / OB GYN News. Both fallopian tubes had fibroid-like growths within them (approximately 1 cm in diameter), and there was a larger 5 cm fibroid-like growth arising from the right. (Fig. Phthisis/Phthisical. Phthisis and Phthisical refers to an eye that has shrunk down due to loss of its fluid. This is an acquired condition that is caused by a disease, trauma or possibly surgery. Synonym(s): accessory organs (1) , adnexa, annexa. /ad·nexa/ (ad-nek´sah) [L., pl.] appendages or accessory structures of an organ, as the appendages of the eye (a. o´culi), including the eyelids and lacrimal apparatus, or of the uterus (a. u´teri), including the uterine tubes and ligaments and ovaries. Other adnexae in the body include those of the skin (which are more commonly called skin adnexae and include the sweat and apocrine glands, hair and nails) and the eye (which include the eyelids, lacrimal apparatus and orbital tissue), for which the phrase accessory visual structures is more commonly used. [L.] appendages; accessory organs, as of the eye (adnexa oculi), uterus (adnexa uteri) or epidermal appendages, e.g. hair, sweat glands, sebaceous glands and claws or nails.
Subordinate or accessory parts, such as eyelids, Fallopian tubes, and extraembryonic membranes.