accessory (redirected from accessory after the fact)

accessory /ac·ces·so·ry/ (ak-ses´ah-re) supplementary; affording aid to another similar and generally more important thing.

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ac·ces·so·ry (k-ss-r)

adj.

Having a secondary, supplementary, or subordinate function.

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accessory

[akses′ərē]

Etymology: L, accessonis, appendage

1 a supplementary item, desirable but not necessary, used chiefly for convenience or for safety, such as the electric elevator mechanisms for hospital beds.

2 a structure that serves one of the main anatomic systems, such as the accessory sex organs in men and women or the accessory organs of the skin, including the hair, the nails, and the skin glands.

3 one who aids in perpetrating a crime.

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accessory,

adj providing complementary or supplementary assistance.

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accessory

supplementary or affording aid to another similar and generally more important thing.

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accessory nerve

see Table 14.

accessory sex glands

any gland, other than the gonad, associated with the genital tract, such as the ampulla of the ductus deferens and the bulbourethral, prostate and vesicular glands of the male.