arcuate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of arcuate
1620–30; < Latin arcuātus bent like a bow, curved (past participle of arcuāre ), equivalent to arcu-, stem of arcus bow + -ātus -ate 1
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The arcuate “bow shaped” arteries form arcs along the base of the medullary pyramids.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
These again split to form arcuate arteries, from which cortical radiate arteries radiate out and branch into many afferent arterioles that enter the capillaries supplying the nephrons.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Cortical radiate arteries, as the name suggests, radiate out from the arcuate arteries.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
The gills are strongly decurrent, yellowish, to whitish, close, arcuate.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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