cingulum
Americannoun
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
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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
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 Huntington, Ellsworth
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 White, John A.
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.
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