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

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.

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)

The arch above and the centrum below inclose the neural canal.

From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Lucas, Frederic

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