Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, same as
flexure . - noun In veterinary surgery, specifically, the radiocarpal articulation, as the knee of a horse, corresponding to the human wrist-joint.
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Examples
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In fracture of the ribs (_flexura costi_) Gilbert recommends a somewhat novel plan for the replacement of the displaced bone.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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Nomen nostmm ex flexura singulari omnium par - tium.
Prodromus stirpium in horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium Richard Anthony Salisbury 1796
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Exprimit mtteritm curutturt in vjte C. 4, ao, 3, h.e. in loco, vbi curutn eli viris genuen fa - cilius exiM; ii. flexura ft add.
Scriptorvm rei rvsticae vetervm latinorvm tomvs primvs-[qvartvs].. 1794
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Quineciam, qusecunqueiaculculafunc Specu - lorum AdQmiii iaceris flexura praedica noftri:
T. Lucretii Cari De rerum natura libri sex Titus Lucretius Carus , Thomas Creech , George Gordon Byron Byron 1770
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Bassaris et lyncem Maenas flexura corymbis euhion ingeminat, reparabilis adsonat echo (i.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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