rami-, ram- +

Flowering on branches.

Branch-like, branch-shaped; branched; ramified.

1. To have complicating consequences or outgrowths.
2. To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts.
3. To divide into or cause to extend into branches or subordinate branchlike parts.
4. Of trees and plants or their parts; to form branches, to branch out, extend in the form of branches.
5. To extend or spread in a number of subdivisions or offshoots analogous to branches; especially in the anatomy of veins, nerves, etc.

That which produces branches.

1. The surgical division of a ramus communicans between a spinal nerve and a ganglion of the sympathetic trunk.
2. Surgical division of communicantes of sympathetic nerves.

Inflammation of a ramus.

1. Branching or having many lateral divisions or branches.
2. Resembling a branch or branches.

1. A minute or very small branch.
2. One of the terminal branches of a ramus or branch.

One of the primary branches of a spinal nerve that connects with a sympathetic ganglion (a structure that contains a dense cluster of nerve cells).

Each one consists of a white portion (white ramus communicans) composed of myelinated pregangionic sympathetic fibers and a gray portion (gray ramus communicans) composed of unmyelinated postganglionic fibers.

1. One of the two prominent, projecting back parts of the horse-shoe-shaped lower jaw bone.
2. A quadrilateral process projecting upwards from the posterior part of either side of the mandible.

An offshoot or subdivision arising from the bifurcation of a blood vessel, a lymph vessel, or a nerve.

In anatomy, a branch; such as, a branch of a blood vessel or nerve. An example is the ramus acetabularis arteriae circumflexae femoris medialis is the branch of an artery that goes to the socket of the hip joint.