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

So that it would seem that the atlas is a vertebra minus a centrum, and the axis is a vertebra plus a centrum, added at the expense of the atlas.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Hence the chief point of contrast noted on examining a transverse frontal section through the cerebral hemisphere of a man and an ape consists in the mass of the centrum ovale of Vieussens.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

It was conceived in the following terms:      In Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat      Umbra Scartaris Julii intra calendas descende,      Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.

From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules

The vertebrae are stereospondylous, the centrum or body and the arch being completely fused into one mass, leaving not even a neuro-central suture.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various