fundus
pronunciation
How to pronounce fundus in British English:
UK ['fʌndəs]
How to pronounce fundus in American English:
US ['fʌndəs]
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- Noun:
- (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part farthest from its opening
Word Origin
- fundus (n.)
- "bottom, depths; base of an organ," 1754, from Latin fundus "bottom" (see fund (n.)). In any general use it probably is extended from specific senses in anatomy.
Example
- 1. Madam fundus and educator hemp were still beside kelp .
- 2. Nobody know you from the fundus disdain .
- 3. Observation of fundus fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography of retinitis pigmentosa .
- 4. Funduscopic examination reveals retinal hemorrhages extending outward from the optic disk and may cover the whole fundus , giving a " blood and thunder appearance " ( shown ) .
- 5. Up to yesterday , she hasbeen hospitalized for ten days , during which symptoms such as enlargement ofliver and spleen , pulmonary infection , anemia and fundus lesions began toappear .