Stapes
L. stapes = stirrup. The smallest of the three ossicles resembles a stirrup.
Streptomycin
Gr. strepto- = twisted, and mykes = fungus, and L. griseus = gray In the late 1930s, Selman Waksman, a soil microbiologist working at the New Jersey Agricultural Station of Rutgers University,…
Sustenaculum
L. sustenare = to support (from sub = under, and tenere = to hold), and -culum = a diminutive suffix. Applied to a projection from the os calcis which supports the talus.
Suture
L. sutura = a sewing or seam. Hence a suture in the anatomical sense, as between the bones of the skull.
Tabes dorsalis
L. tabes = wasting away, L. dorsal = posterior Demyelination of posterior column and root in tertiary syphilis (neurosyphilis) with nerve root pain, meningitis, ataxia. If blindness, paralysis and death are consequences. Very rare…
Taenia
Gr. tainia, and later L. taenia = a ribbon, tape or fillet. This term, used as the name of a genus of tapeworms, is also applied to the longitudinal muscles of the…