vermis
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vermes
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of vermis
1885–90; < New Latin; Latin: worm; so called from its shape
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Therefore, the researchers investigated the possibility that Bergmann glial cells in the cerebellar vermis regulate the volume of aggression in mice.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2023
Samples of the following areas were taken and analysed: frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital, posterior frontal cortex including motor strip, basal ganglia, thalamus, hippocampus, brain stem including midbrain, and cerebellar hemisphere and vermis.
From Nature ● Sep. 8, 2015
The vermis is referred to as the spinocerebellum because it primarily receives input from the dorsal columns and spinocerebellar pathways.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The midline is composed of the vermis and the flocculonodular lobe, and the hemispheres are the lateral regions.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
But still more confusion meets us: the word vermilion which is now used for a red colour of mineral origin, is derived from vermis, a worm, and should therefore also be applied to cochineal.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Sir Francis Darwin
In old books it is named vermilion, in allusion to the insect, or vermes, from which it is prepared.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
They belong to the Molluscoida of Huxley, a lower division of the great family of the Mollusca; but they have recently been placed by some naturalists among the vermes or worms.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
These wondrous phenomena of nature belong to the genus hydra, class vermes, order zoophyte; the distinguishing character of which is, that if any part of the body be severed, it instantly becomes a perfect animal.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
But they soon creep out again, in order, as if by agreement, to fly out to sea and search for their food, which consists of crustacea and vermes.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Marine vermes, the mollusca, testacea, lithophytes, and zoophytes, together with fishes and sea-birds, feed beneath this floating meadow.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray
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