bifurcation

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Curator Carlos Basualdo in Philadelphia and Scott Rothkopf at the Whitney stress the idea of doubling, or mirror images, and Johns’s fascination with horizontal and vertical bifurcations.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

Over the years, drilling has evolved into a complex discipline in which directional drilling can produce multiple bifurcations and curves originating from a single drill collar at the surface.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

In selecting the spot for the application of the ligature, avoid as far as possible bifurcations, or the neighbourhood of large collateral branches.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph

Same appearances in a more marked degree in the bifurcations of the trachea.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

The bifurcations of the Orinoco, the isthmus of Tuamini, so easy to be made passable by an artificial canal, will ere long fix the attention of commercial Europe.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von