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
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)
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)
In the trunk vertebrae the opisthocoelous character of the centrum gradually diminishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various
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
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 Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)
All are of the coelacanth type, having Y-shaped neural and haemal arches, without centra.
From A New Genus of Pennsylvania Fish (Crossoperygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas by Echols, Joan
