Pl. fundi [L.] the bottom or base of an organ, or the part of a hollow organ farthest from its mouth.
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| Fundus of the cat. By permission from Sack W, Wensing CJG, Dyce KM, Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy, Saunders, 2002 |
- f. of bladder — the depths or cranial part of the urinary bladder.
- f. camera — used to photograph the fundus of the eye.
- f. of eye — the back portion of the interior of the eyeball, visible through the pupil by use of the ophthalmoscope.
- f. of gallbladder — the dilated portion of the gallbladder.
- nasal f. — the caudal extremity of the nasal cavity, occupied by the ethmoid bone.
- nontapetal f. — the nonreflective portion.
- ocular f. — see fundus of eye (above).
- f. reticuli sulci — floor of the reticular groove.
- f. of stomach — the part of the stomach to the left and above the level of the opening between the stomach and esophagus.
- tigroid f. — one lacking pigment so that underlying choroid vessels are visible as irregular stripes.
- f. tympani — the floor of the tympanic cavity.
- unpigmented nontapetal f. — lack of pigment permits larger blood vessels of the choroid to appear on fundoscopic examination. Seen in Siamese cats, dogs with merle coat color and Appaloosa horses.
- f. uteri — the part of the uterus between the cervix and the horns of the uterus.