cingulum

American  

[sing-gyuh-luhm] / ˈsɪŋ gyə ləm /

noun

plural

cingula

1. Anatomy, Zoology. a belt, zone, or girdlelike part.

2. Dentistry. basal ridge.

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cingulum British  

/ ˈsɪŋɡjʊləm, -ˌleɪt, ˈsɪŋɡjʊlɪt /

noun

1. anatomy a girdle-like part, such as the ridge round the base of a tooth or the band of fibres connecting parts of the cerebrum

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Other Word Forms

• cingular adjective
• cingulate adjective
• cingulated adjective

Etymology

Origin of cingulum

1835–45; < Latin: girdle, zone, equivalent to cing- (stem of cingere to gird; cincture ) + -ulum -ule

Example Sentences

The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from the Latin cingulum, for belt or girdle.

From Time Magazine Archive

The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from the Latin cingulum, for belt or girdle.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is in addition to these cusps a distinct basal cingulum, most prominent in the region of the heel.

From On The Affinities of Leptarctus primus of Leidy American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VI, Article VIII, pp. 229-331. by Wortman, Jacob Lawson

Diagnostic dental characters include: 3rd upper unicuspid smaller than 4th, and unicuspids, except 5th, with a pigmented ridge extending from near apex of each tooth medially to cingulum and sometimes ending as internal cusplet.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.

“An cingulum, tertium indumentum sacerdotale, possit esse colons paramentorum; an necessario debeat esse album?”

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by