centrum
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We want a waiting area called a “centrum,” which is a place “where comfort and convenience meet,” and we want an eatery by Wolfgang Puck in the center of the centrum.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2021
Since the earth has in itself its especial centrum, a stone or an arrow falls freely out of the air again to its own centrum as do all earthly things.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson
The two inner pairs of processes coalesce round the chorda, and later form the centrum; the upper outer pair meet above the spinal column; the lower outer pair form ribs.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The centrum, when viewed laterally, is slightly concave and has prominent subcentral ridges that extend from the median side of the paradiapophysial articular surfaces posteriorly to the neck of the condylus.
From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by John Wellman
In the trunk vertebrae the opisthocoelous character of the centrum gradually diminishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
Yellen, speaking a week after the Fed delayed a long-anticipated rate hike, said she and other Fed policymakers do not expect recent global economic and financial market developments to significantly affect the centra bank's policy.
From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2015
Vertebral centra of Megatooth sharks are known in addition to teeth, but that’s it, and – unsurprisingly – there has been much tendency to over-estimate the size of this giant.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 6, 2013
The centra of the cervical and dorsal vertebrae have peculiar, S-shaped articular surfaces, and they interlock tightly.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 3, 2012
But there is nothing in Rathke's observations to support the idea that the centra of the cranial vertebræ are formed from separate halves.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
The skull of Vertebrates consists, according to Müller, of three vertebræ, whose centra are the basioccipital, the basisphenoid and the presphenoid.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
