arcuate

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The arcuate “bow shaped” arteries form arcs along the base of the medullary pyramids.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Connecting Broca’s area with Wernicke’s is a neural network: a thick, curving bundle of billions of nerve fibres, the arcuate fasciculus, which integrates the production and the comprehension of language.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019

This is an image showing a 3D-printed reconstruction of the white matter pathway connecting two areas of the human brain - the arcuate fasciculus.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2017

The medial surface of the upper ilium forms the iliac fossa, with the arcuate line marking the inferior limit of this area.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Multifoil, mul′ti-foil, adj. having more than five foils or arcuate divisions.—n. multifoil ornament.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various