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

Now of these bones, the basioccipital is in every way equivalent to a vertebral centrum, for it develops in the basilar plate round the notochord.

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

As he put it in Latin: terra igitur, quae centrum esse nequit, motu omni carere non potest.

From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.

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

The latter articulate with the tuberculum of the corresponding rib, while the capitulum articulates by a knob on the side of the anterior end of the centrum.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various