BASAL

adj. Ba’sa’l. Lat., basal is (from Bdows, a base). Fr., basal. Relating to a base (as of the cranium); fundamental, under- 1 inE; as an., a term sometimes used by Huxley and Parker for the asi-sphenoid bone; as a n., in the pl., certain calcareous plates which form a ring around the rior portion of the calix in the Echinoderm at a, [L, 201, 207.) See also B. CARTILAGES.—B'fortsatz (Ger.). See Base-proce .—B’haut (Ger.). See Zona radiata, —B. membrane. See Basement MEMBRANE.—B’platte (Ger.). See Placental DECIDUA serotina.—B’saum (G See Cuticular LAYER.—B's chicht (Ger.). The layer of epithelial cells next to the corium in the skin or next to the membrana propria of any stratified epithelium. (J.]|—B’theil der Haube (Ger.). The b. portion of the tegmentum, forming on each side a portion of the posterior erforated space. {I, 17; K.]—B'winkel (Ger.). A cranial angle ving its apex at the basion, formed by two lines running from that point to the occipital protuberance and to the nasion respectively. [Benedikt (L, 57).)—B’zelle (Ger.). See Basılar CELL.— (Ger.). The cells of the B’schicht (q. v.). [J.]—Eckstandiger (Ger.). See Lateral base-proce .—Mittlerer (Ger.). See Central base-proce .—Seitlicher (Ger.). See Lateral base-proce .