tuberculum
Americannoun
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tuberculaEtymology
Origin of tuberculum
1685–95; < New Latin, Latin
Example Sentences
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The latter articulate with the tuberculum of the corresponding rib, while the capitulum articulates by a knob on the side of the anterior end of the centrum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The tuberculum olfactorium becomes greatly reduced and at the same time flattened; so that it is not easy to draw a line of demarcation between it and the anterior perforated space.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock
Rhinencephalon designates the regions which are pre-eminently olfactory in function: the olfactory bulb, its peduncle, the tuberculum olfactorium and locus perforatus, the pyriform lobe, the paraterminal body, and the whole hippocampal formation.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock
Each rib has a process, the tuberculum, going up to articulate with the transverse process, and one, the capitulum articulating between the bodies of two contiguous vertebrae.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The tuberculum and capitulum on each of the trunk ribs are separated only by a shallow concavity.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
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