cubitus
Americannoun
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cubiti
plural
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a longitudinal vein in the rear portion of the wing of an insect.
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Anatomy.
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the forearm.
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Now Rare. the ulna.
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cubitus
1820–30; < New Latin, Latin, variant of cubitum cubit
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Election Lexicon assumes most readers would rather their surgeons knew their gluteal adipose from their cubitus.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2017
Similarly, Mgn00541 corresponds to a described, but unannotated 2.0 kb transcript overlapping the regulatory mutant allele ci57 of cubitus interruptus33.
From Nature ● Mar. 15, 2014
When this angle is increased, the attitude is described as one of cubitus valgus.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
Carpus: the pterostigma of Odonata: the extremity of the radius and cubitus of the primaries: that point in the wings at which they are tratsversely folded.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Trichoptera; one, two or three cells enclosed by the branches that form-the post-costal or anal vein: Odonata; an elongate cell between radius and cubitus, just before the arculus.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Very much surprised, I reached out my arm for her inspection, and she clasped her long thin fingers around my biceps flexor cubiti.
From A Bicycle of Cathay by Orson Lowell
There was rigidity of the biceps cubiti and slight wasting in the radial extensors.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
Partridge mentions an instance, in a strong and healthy man, of rupture of the tendon of the left triceps cubiti, caused by a fall on the pavement.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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