cingulum
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Origin of cingulum
1835–45; < Latin: girdle, zone, equivalent to cing- (stem of cingere to gird; see cincture) + -ulum -ule
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The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from the Latin cingulum, for belt or girdle.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1342 the waters of the Rhine rose so high that they inundated the city of Mayence and the Cathedral "usque ad cingulum hominis."
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
When it is intended to signify that a knight has been created, it is stated that the individual has been girt with the cingulum militare.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
In the deciduous P4 the anterior cingulum is projected strongly anteriorly forming the apex of the sharpest angle of a triangle, whereas the permanent P4 is trapezoidal in occlusal pattern.
From Geographic Distribution and Taxonomy of the Chipmunks of Wyoming by John A. White
In the third genus, Leptonychotes, represented by L. weddelli, the molars are small, with simple, subcompressed, conical crowns, and a broad cingulum, but no distinct accessory cusps.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Third unicuspid usually smaller than fourth; upper unicuspids usually with pigmented ridge extending from apices medially to cingula, uninterrupted by antero-posterior groove; post-mandibular foramen usually absent.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. Findley
For reverence is that, wherewith princes are girt from God; who threateneth the dissolving thereof; Solvam cingula regum.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
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