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Definition of Restiform
1. a. Formed like a rope; -- applied especially to several ropelike bundles or masses of fibers on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata.
Definition of Restiform
1. Adjective. (anatomy) Formed like a rope; applied especially to several rope-like bundles or masses of fibres on the dorsal side of the medulla oblongata. ¹
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Definition of Restiform
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Restiform
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Restiform
Literary usage of Restiform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"The restiform bodies are the largest prominences of the medulla, ... The restiform
Body.—The upper part of the posterior area of the medulla is occupied by ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"The restiform body is formed principally of fibres of the posterior column of
the-same ... As the restiform body ¡a continued upwards to the cerebellum, ..."
3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"They form an important group of internal arcuate fibers, which run through the
restiform body to the cerebellum and constitute the olivocerebellar tract ..."
4. Anatomy of the Brain and Spinal Cord: With Special Reference to Mechanism by Harris Ellett Santee (1907)
"The anterior external arcuate fibers, running from the anterior surface backward
to the restiform body, may be so numerous as to conceal the lateral column ..."
5. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1858)
"The most external join the restiform body, and pass to the cerebellum. The internal,
more numerous, pass forwards, pushing aside the fibres of the anterior ..."
6. The Applied anatomy of the nervous system by Ambrose Loomis Ranney (1888)
"... (restiform body, inferior peduncle of the cerebellum).—A complete description
of this important bundle properly belongs to a subsequent lecture, ..."
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