1. A collection of instruments adapted for a special purpose.
2. An instrument made up of several parts.
3. [NA]. A group or system of glands, ducts, blood vessels, muscles, or other anatomical structures involved in the performance of some function. See Also: system.
Origin
[L. equipment. fr. ap-paro, pp. -atus, to prepare]
accessory visual apparatus
achromatic apparatus
alimentary apparatus
attachment apparatus
Barcroft-Warburg apparatus
Beckmann’s apparatus
Benedict-Roth apparatus
branchial apparatus
central apparatus
chromatic apparatus
chromidial apparatus
dental apparatus
digestive apparatus
apparatus digestorius
genitourinary apparatus
Golgi apparatus
Haldane’s apparatus
Heyns‘ abdominal decompression apparatus
hyoid apparatus
apparatus hyoideus
juxtaglomerular apparatus
Kirschner’s apparatus
Kjeldahl apparatus
lacrimal apparatus
apparatus lacrimalis
apparatus ligamentosus colli
apparatus ligamentosus weitbrechti
masticatory apparatus
mental apparatus
pyriform apparatus
apparatus respiratorius
respiratory apparatus
Roughton-Scholander apparatus
Sayre’s suspension apparatus
Scholander apparatus
subneural apparatus
apparatus suspensorius lentis
Taylor’s apparatus
Tiselius apparatus
urinary apparatus
urogenital apparatus
apparatus urogenitalis
Van Slyke apparatus
vestibular apparatus
Warburg’s apparatus