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1. vertex n.

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Anat. The crown or topmost part of the head. …

2. vertebrum n.

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Anat. The round head of the femur which rests in the hip socket; also, the upper part of the small triangular bone forming the lower extremity of the human spinal column, coccyx. …

3. saccus n.

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Anat. The caecum. …

4. zirbus n.

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Anat. A peritoneal serous membrane that envelops the bowels, the greater omentum. …

5. omentum n.

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Anat. The greater omentum. …

6. membrāne n.

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Anat. A membrane; membrane conjunctif, the conjunctiva. …

7. purpurea adj. as n.

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Anat. The median cubital vein. …

8. porta n.

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Anat. The portal vein. …

9. rectum n.

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Anat. The rectum. …

10. os n.(2)

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Anat. (a) A bone; -- often in names of specific bones: os laude, ossa mendosa, etc. [see laude, mendose, etc.]; (b) os sepie, the calcareous internal shell of the cuttlefish. …

11. parietāl adj. & n.

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Anat. (a) parietal bones, bones parietal, parietal bones; (b) pl. the parietal bones. …

12. pennule n.

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Anat. A lobe of the liver; cp. penne l.(c). …

13. fauces n. plural

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Anat. The narrow passage at the back of the mouth leading into the pharynx; the palatal and the pharyngial arches which control this passage. …

14. conjunctīva, -īf adj.

Additional spellings: conjunctif
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Anat. Conjunctiva. …

15. additament n.

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(a) Something added; an increase, an increment, a supplement; (b) a projection or protuberance; (c) anat. a process or appendage; esp., an apophysis. …

16. tractāble adj.

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Anat. Capable of contracting; responsive to a pushing force. …

17. textūre n.

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(a) The art of weaving; (b) anat. a membrane; (c) anat. the portion of the eye where the tissues of the cornea and conjunctiva become continuous. …

18. 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. …

19. ventricle n.

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Anat. A chamber or cavity within a bodily organ (a) either ventricle of the heart; also, a supposed third ventricle of the heart; lift ventricle; right ventricle; thrid ventricle; (b) any of the four……

20. villǒus adj.

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Anat. Having muscle fibers, fibrous. …

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