brachium

American  

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

noun

• brachia
  plural

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

Derived Forms

• postbrachium
  noun
• pseudobrachium
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• brachia
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of brachium

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

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Example Sentences

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brachium brachia

The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to be rendered "and with a string of serpents' eggs on your arm."

From Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849 by Various

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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 Ignatius Donnelly

In this development of brachial extensions of the theca the genital organs were involved, and their ripe products formed at the ends of the brachia or in the branches therefrom.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

Lines like Virgil's   "Illi inter sese multa vi brachia tollunt   In numerum, versantque tenaci forcipe massam," would not have been suited to the subject.

From Cambridge Sketches by Frank Preston Stearns

The importance of the χειρονομία or hand-movement is indicated by Ovid:—“Si vox est, canta; si mollia brachia, salta.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Some suppose that by "bis pedes, bis brachia," he means that two nails were to be driven into each leg and foot.

From The Captiva and the Mostellaria by Henry T. (Henry Thomas) Riley

Then would come a happy cure to aching bones—made whole with honourable bruises, oblivious of pain, the "brachia livida," lithesome and triumphant.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

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