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
The arch above and the centrum below inclose the neural canal.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
The centrum is elongate and triangular from below; it is widest at the paradiapophyses and narrowest at the short condylar neck.
From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by John Wellman
When the tumour is sub-cortical, that is, in the centrum ovale, there are no Jacksonian spasms, the motor paralysis is more widespread, and sensation also is lost on the opposite side of the body.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
From the pyramidal cells in the cortex of the Rolandic area, the axis cylinders pass through the centrum ovale towards the base of the brain.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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
Oken supposed that there were four such vertebræ in the skull, the centra being firmly fused and the arches expanded to form the dome of the skull.
From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
Injuries to the centra were very frequent, but differed extraordinarily in their importance.
From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by George Henry Makins
