The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suprarenal \Su`pra*re"nal\, a. (Anat.) Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys. -- n. A suprarenal capsule.
Suprarenal capsules (Anat.), two small bodies of unknown function in front of, or near, the kidneys in most vertebrates. Also called renal capsules, and suprarenal bodies.
Wiktionary
a. located on, or above the kidney n. A suprarenal capsule.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Suprarenal is an adjective that may refer to:
- Adrenal gland
- Suprarenal veins
Usage examples of "suprarenal".
We call it our Sympathetic-Parasympathetic Integrated Suprarenal Excitation System, or SPISES, for short.
There is a series of organs in the body which has long puzzled physiologists,--organs of glandular aspect, but having no ducts,--the spleen, the thyroid and thymus bodies, and the suprarenal capsules.
The right kidney was situated normally, and received from the aorta two arteries, whose volume did not surpass the two arteries supplying the left suprarenal capsule, which was in its ordinary place.
Postmortem examinations of leukodermic persons show no change in the suprarenal capsule, a supposed organ of pigmentation.
It dove downward to my spleen, traversed the suprarenals, left my body for an instant, and then swung back through the thyroid gland in my throat.
I put it into a flat spiral motion, forcing it to move downward through my spleen and my solar plexus, up into the suprarenals, the thymus.