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1. involven v.

18 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) To cloud (writing with obscurities), envelop (sb., the soul, in darkness, vice, etc.); encumber (sb. with care, adverse fortune, church censure); surround (sb. with goods); refl. concern oneself…

2. ō̆rifice n. singular & plural

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Anat. & surg. (a) The opening of a wound; (b) the aperture or cavity of an ulcer, fistula, or festering sore; (c) aperture(s(s in an organ, vein, or duct of the body; orifice of the emoroides, the…

3. pit n.

200 quotations in 6 senses
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(a) A natural or man-made depression in the ground, hole, pit, ditch; cave; also fig.; also, an open excavation from which some mineral product is obtained or in which some industrial process is…

4. plasmāciǒun n.

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(a) A forming or fashioning, creation; (b) anat. & surg. the form, shape, or structure of a bodily organ; also, the form or shape of a wound.

5. posiciǒun n.

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(a) A statement of belief; proposition; bi grace of posicioun, for the sake of argument; (b) location; anat. and surg. with reference to a part of the body: location, positioning.

6. sūtūre n.

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(a) Surg. A surgical stitch, a suture; also, the act of suturing; with suture of pelteres, with a stitch like that of a furrier; (b) anat. a bodily seam, a raphe.

7. tọ̄ adv.(1)

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In expressions of motion: (a) to a place; to this place, here; to that place or person, there; also used redundantly following prep. phrase with to [last 2 quots.]; hard in goinge to, hard to get at…