connection

connection
A union of elements or things; a connecting structure. SYN: conexus, connexus.
- ambiguous atrioventricular connections connections in which half the atrioventricular junction is connected concordantly and the other half is discordantly connected.
- anomalous pulmonary venous connections, total or partial connections in which some or all of the pulmonary veins connect to the right atrium or one of its tributaries.
- atrioventricular connections the five distinct and discrete ways in which the atrial chambers may be connected to the ventricles are concordant, discordant, ambiguous, double inlet, and univentricular.
- concordant atrioventricular connections connections in which the atrial chambers connect to the morphologically appropriate ventricles.
- discordant atrioventricular connections connections in which each atrium is connected with a morphologically inappropriate ventricle.
- double inlet atrioventricular connections connections in which both atrial chambers connect to the same ventricle.
- intertendinous connections of extensor digitorum [TA] fibrous bands passing obliquely between the diverging tendons of the extensor digitorum on the dorsum of the hand. SYN: connexus intertendinei musculi extensoris digitorum [TA], conexus intertendineus, juncturae tendinum.
- marrow-mesenchyme connections uninterrupted continuations between bone marrow and mesenchyme of fetal and newborn middle ears.
- partial anomalous pulmonary venous connections See anomalous pulmonary venous connections, total or partial.
- univentricular connections connections in which one of the atrial chambers is connected to a ventricle, but the other has no c. with the ventricular mass at all.

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con·nec·tion (kə-nekґshən) 1. something that joins other things together. 2. the act of joining or state of being joined together. 3. connector.

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