sur excitation sive excitation. (sur-ek-si-ta's hun)

Exce urface (sur'fas). The outside or limiting part of a solid body; hence the face or one of the faces of a body, auricular s. (of the ilium or of the sacrum). See superficies auricular is, under superficies, demarcation s. The cut s. of a muscle, which is electronegative to the uninjured portion of the muscle, glenoid S. See glenoid cavity, under cavity. nasal s. (of the superior maxilla). S. of superior maxilla that is directed toward nose, orbital s. (of the superior maxilla). Upper s. of superior maxilla, popliteal s. of the femur. A triangular s. of femur included between internal and external supra condylar lines. It forms floor of upper part of popliteal space, sphenomaxillary s. Portion of the ala magna of sphenoid bone that enters into the formation of the sphenomaxillary fo a, temporal s. A flat s. on parietal bone, bounded by temporal line. [Fr., sur, -fface, from Lat., facies.]