ADNEXA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adnexa mean? 

• ADNEXA (noun)
  The noun ADNEXA has 1 sense:

1. accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo)

  Familiarity information: ADNEXA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADNEXA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accessory or adjoining anatomical parts or appendages to an organ (especially of the embryo)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adnexa; annexa

Context example:

Fallopian tubes and ovaries are adnexa of the uterus

Hypernyms ("adnexa" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Derivation:

adnexal; annexal (of or pertaining to adnexa)

 Context examples 

The bony cavity of the skull which contains the eye, anterior portion of the optic nerve, ocular muscles and ocular adnexa.

(Murine Orbit, NCI Thesaurus)

It occurs in the peritoneum and may affect the serosa surface of the uterus and the adnexa.

(Endosalpingiosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A melanoma that arises from the structures of the eye or ocular adnexa.

(Ocular melanoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It comprises three entities, according to the anatomic sites involved: extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, which affects extranodal sites (most often stomach, lung, skin, and ocular adnexa); nodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, which affects lymph nodes without evidence of extranodal disease; and splenic marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, which affects the spleen and splenic hilar lymph nodes, bone marrow, and often the peripheral blood.

(Marginal zone lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)