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Plant Leaves

Medical Definition: Expanded structures, usually green, of vascular plants, characteristically consisting of a bladelike expansion attached to a stem, and functioning as the principal organ of photosynthesis and transpiration. (American Heritage Dictionary, 2d ed)
Guide Notes: part of a plant shoot; IM GEN or unspecified; coord probably IM in genetics & space physiol, NIM in pharmacognosy, with specific plant (IM or NIM)
Previously Indexed: Plants (1966-1994)
Plant Leaves Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Pulvinus - A group of cells at the base of a leaf in certain plants that, by rapidly losing water, brings about changes in the position of the leaves. (Concise Dictionary of Biology, 1990)

Plant Leaves Medical Definitions and Terms

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