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Centrum

noun
(pl. E. centrums, L. centra)
1.
The main body of a vertebra.





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"Centrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... * "Sphaera cujus centrum ubique, circumferentia nullibi." positively said, the plants of the field were not yet grown; for God had not caused it to rain upon the earth. I believe that the serpent (if we shall literally understand it), ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... American arithmetic, written by Isaac Greenwood (1729, p. 1). Petrus de Dacia derives cyfra from circumference. "Vocatur etiam cyfra, quasi circumfacta vel circumferenda, quod idem est, quod circulus non habito respectu ad centrum." [Loc. ...
— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith


Words linked to "Centrum" :   vertebral arch, os, neural arch, hemal arch, vertebra, haemal arch, bone


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