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restiform

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/ ˈrɛstɪˌfɔːm /

adjective

  1. (esp of bundles of nerve fibres) shaped like a cord or rope; cordlike

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of restiform

C19: from New Latin restiformis , from Latin restis a rope + forma shape

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I have fully corroborated the statement that injury to a particular spot of the restiform body is quickly followed by a marked protrusion of the eyeball on the same side.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Haematoma and dry gangrene of the ears in animals born of parents in which these ear-alterations had been caused by an injury to the restiform body near the nib of the calamus. 7th.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Forty guinea-pigs in which one or both eyes showed more or less morbid change were descended from three individuals in which one eye had become diseased in consequence of transverse section of the restiform body.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

Exophthalmia in animals born of parents in which an injury to the restiform body had produced that protrusion of the eyeball....

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

The letter c is placed on the restiform bodies or posterior part of the medulla oblongata of the cod.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

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