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 Stimson, Dorothy

It is in the outer sheath that the vertebræ develop—from four separate pieces, in fish at least, plus an additional element which helps to form the centrum.

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 Wellman, John

In development the centrum of the axis ossifies from one centre, and the odontoid, peg from another, which at that time occupies the position of centrum of the atlas.

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