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91extrinsic factor — noun Date: 1938 vitamin B12 …
92extrinsic gas bladder muscles — muscles with one end inserting on the gas bladder and the other end inserting elsewhere, as opposed to intrinsic …
93extrinsic eye muscles — muscles attached to the eyeball and orbital wall for eye movement. The same in jawed and jawless fishes except the superior obliques which attach posteriorly in the orbit in the jawless fishes instead of anteriorly …
94extrinsic sonic muscles — usually a pair, two pairs or more rarely three pairs of muscles inserted on the gas bladder and a neighbouring structure such as a bone (ribs, parapophyses), perhaps via ligaments. Insertions vary with the species and family. The muscles produce… …
95extrinsic articulation — One in which the articulating surface of contact is outside of the skeletal parts; see intrinsic articulation …
96extrinsic muscles — Muscles which move an organ (leg, etc.), but that originate outside of it; see intrinsic muscles …
97extrinsic factor — An environmental factor such as temperature that influences microbial growth in food …
98extrinsic pathway — Initiation of blood clotting as a result of factors released from damaged tissue, as opposed to contact with a foreign surface (the intrinsic pathway). Tissue thromboplastin (Factor III) in conjunction with Factor VII (proconvertin) will activate …
99extrinsic eye muscle — Anat. any of six small muscles that control the horizontal, vertical, and rotating movements of the eyeball. Also called extraocular muscle. * * * …
100extrinsic factor — Biochem. See vitamin B12. [1925 30] * * * …