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

The basisphenoid appears in the basilar plate, but in front of the notochord, nor does it arise in exactly the same way as the centrum of a vertebra.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

They are most common in the pons, basal ganglia, and cerebellum, but occur also in the cerebral cortex and sometimes in the centrum ovale.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The centrum is elongate and triangular from below; it is widest at the paradiapophyses and narrowest at the short condylar neck.

From A Revision of Snakes of the Genus Conophis (Family Colubridae, from Middle America) by Wellman, John

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