The protrusion of an organ or other bodily structure through the wall that normally contains it;a rupture.
The main part of a bodily structure or organ.
computerized axial tomography:Tomography in which computer analysis of a series of cross-sectional scans made along a single axis of a bodily structure or tissue is used to construct a three-dimensional image of that structure.
"The technique is used in diagnostic studies of internal bodily structures, as in the detection of tumors or brain aneurysms."
A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.