brachium

American  

[brey-kee-uhm, brak-ee-] / ˈbreɪ ki əm, ˈbræk i- /

noun

plural

brachia

1. Anatomy. the part of the arm from the shoulder to the elbow.

2. the corresponding part of any limb, as in the wing of a bird.

3. an armlike part or process.

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brachium British  

/ ˈbreɪkɪəm, ˈbræk- /

noun

1. anatomy the arm, esp the upper part

2. a corresponding part, such as a wing, in an animal

3. biology a branching or armlike part

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Other Word Forms

• postbrachium noun
• pseudobrachium noun

Etymology

Origin of brachium

1725–35; < New Latin; Latin brāc ( c ) hium the arm; compare Greek brachíōn, formally the comparative of brachýs short

Example Sentences

The other bolt connects the extremity of the brake to the pump-spear, which draws up the spear box or piston, charged with the water in the tube; derived from brachium, an arm or lever.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

That part of the fore limb between the brachium and the carpus; the forearm.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Versus locum vbi hoc brachium exit de mari est late terræ planities, in quâ antiquitus stetit Troia Ciuitas de qua apud Poetas mira leguntur sed nunc valdè modica apparent vestigia Ciuitatis.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Hakluyt, Richard

The Chaldee word braic, a branch, is the Irish braic or raigh, an arm, the Welsh braic, the Latin brachium, and the English brace, something which supports like an arm.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius

Hic bisecatur via, alterutrumque ejus brachium Lindum usque, alterum versus Viriconium protenditur, sic: Manduessuedo m.p.

From Old English Chronicles by Various