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transverse

adjective as in lying or extending across

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Example Sentences

If you can’t fully rotate your foot toward and away from the center of the body, along what’s known as the transverse plane, you may have balance problems while skiing.

She taught these blobs to transverse salty patches of land by gradually filling them with sodium.

It has been reported that the volunteer, a woman, had developed serious neurological symptoms that might have been associated with transverse myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord that can be caused by an immune response.

From Fortune

AstraZeneca CEO announced later in the week that the patient in the trial likely had transverse myelitis, a condition that involves inflammation of the spinal cord and can, in rare cases, be triggered by vaccines or viral infections.

Soriot said it wasn’t clear whether the participant had a condition called transverse myelitis, a suspected diagnosis.

From Fortune

The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.

The figures, besides being outlined by the dots, were decorated all over with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts.

Sir Thomas de la Moore mentions long transverse trenches, similarly covered so as to bear men aware of them, but not horses.

On this black border is a transverse row of four or five white spots, unequal in size.

Testa ovato-oblonga valde tumida clausa radiatim costata, costis transverse costato-striatis, auriculis minutis, margine crenato.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to transverse, such as: across, cross, crosswise, athwart, diagonal, and intersecting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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