Medical Term:
whorl
Pronunciation: wŏrl
Definition:
- A turn of the spiral cochlea of the ear.
- A turn of a concha nasalis.
- An area of hair growing in a radial manner suggesting whirling or twisting.
- One of the distinguishing patterns composing the Galton system of classification of fingerprints.
See: hair whorls
Synonym(s): vortex of heart
Synonym(s): vortex2
Search Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
