- cleavage lines of Langer
- lignes de Langer
English-French medical dictionary. 2015.
English-French medical dictionary. 2015.
cleavage lines — linear clefts in the skin over many parts of the body, indicative of direction of the fibers. They correspond closely to the crease lines in the skin, and assume a characteristic pattern in each body part, although they can vary with body… … Medical dictionary
Langer's lines — Langer s lines, sometimes called cleavage lines, is a term used to define the direction within the human skin along which the skin has the least flexibility. HistoryThese lines correspond to the alignment of collagen fibers within the dermis.… … Wikipedia
Langer lines — cleavage l s … Medical dictionary
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syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
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let-7 microRNA precursor — Predicted secondary structure and sequence conservation of let 7 Identifiers Symbol let 7 Rfam … Wikipedia
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