Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archœol., a handle, as of a vase.
- noun plural In astronomy, the parts of Saturn's ring which are to be seen on each side of the planet when viewed through a telescope: so called because they appear like handles to the body of the planet.
- noun In anatomy, a looped nerve or loop-like nervous structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Astron.) A name given to either of the projecting ends of Saturn's ring.
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- noun astronomy the most protruding part of
planetary rings as seen from distance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tel him, “Teh ansa iz az playn az taht pimplol awn yor noaz ”
nobbody undestands - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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A passenger waits in line at the Lufth ansa counter at Los Angeles International Airport to check into a flight scheduled to leave for Europe on April 21.
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October 18, 2009 at 9:38 am ai kent ansa heer. wil tell all een teh nawtee bayrn.
i think i can i think i can - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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September 17, 2009 at 3:11 pm yur bote rong. ansa iz 42
Well this is going much - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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How many people have venus inthe third househouse (astrologically speaking) short ansa heaps.
Is Obama the Drug High America Wants and Needs? Politicapharmacology 101 2008
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Now..on to the ‘Fada’ quiz…as my man Charly Boy been ansa one time…“I go save my wife, abeg…as I no fit poke my mama”.
THIS IS NOT A SERMON! princesa 2008
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The postganglionic fibers pass from these ganglia partly through the ansa subclavia to the heart, on their way they intermingle with sympathetic fibers from the vagus to form the cardiac plexus.
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From the first two nerves the branch joins the hypoglossal trunk, runs with it some distance, and sends off a branch to the Thyreohyoideus; it then leaves the hypoglossal to form the descendens hypoglossi and unites with the communicantes cervicalis from the second and third cervical nerves to form the ansa hypoglossi from which nerves pass to the other Infrahyoid muscles.
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This loop is named the ansa subclavia (Vieussenii).
IX. Neurology. 7b. The Cervical Portion of the Sympathetic System 1918
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They are supposed to emerge from the spinal cord in the anterior roots of the upper four or five thoracic nerves and pass with the white rami to the first thoracic ganglion, here some terminate, others pass in the ansa subclavia to the inferior cervical ganglion.
applebone commented on the word ansa
ansa: a bend in a river, or the handle of a cup.
January 10, 2007
rolig commented on the word ansa
pl.: ansae
April 24, 2008
sarra commented on the word ansa
gives a whole new meaning to ansaphone!
(Or a couple, depending on ingenuity.)
April 24, 2008
rolig commented on the word ansa
haha! good one, sarra. When I first read that I thought, "Oh, is that like a saxophone? Is it called that because it is bent?" Sometimes I lose touch with reality.
May 5, 2008
biocon commented on the word ansa
In addition, ansa means a loop or structure resembling a loop (Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002).
December 6, 2012