Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the stem or trunk of a tree.
- noun In zoology, the trunk; the axial part of an animal minus the head, limbs, and tail. See
soma . - noun The main stem or trunk of a nerve or vessel of the body.
- noun In entomology, the thorax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The thorax of an insect. See
trunk , n., 5.
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- noun biology The
thorax of aninsect . - noun geometry A
curve in theCartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying anequation of the form where a, b, and c are givenconstants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Enlarge+the heart starts with a single large blood vessel coming from the heart called the truncus arteriosus.
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Lillian suffers from a condition called truncus arteriosus, which leaves her blood short of oxygen.
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The nine-day-old baby girl suffers from a congenital heart defect called truncus arteriosus -- a condition that leaves her without enough oxygen in her blood.
Toronto Sun 2009
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Lillian is one month old and suffers from a condition called truncus arteriosus, which leaves her blood short of oxygen.
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Lillian is one month old and suffers from a condition called truncus arteriosus, which leaves her blood short of oxygen.
CTV News RSS Feed 2009
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The branches are lopped away, leaving literally the 'truncus' as the part of the tree out of which log and rafter can be cut.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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In almost all cases, children with truncus arteriosus also have a large hole between the bottom chambers of the heart.
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If fetal development progresses normally, the truncus divides into two arteries that carry blood out of the heart: the pulmonary artery, which is attached to the right bottom chamber (ventricle) of the heart and divides into two arteries carrying oxygen-poor ( "blue") blood to each side of the lungs the aorta, which is attached to the left bottom chamber (ventricle) of the heart and carries oxygen-rich ( "red") blood to the body.
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A number of children with truncus arteriosus also have a genetic syndrome called 22q11 deletion syndrome (also known as DiGeorge, velocardialfacial or conotruncal anomaly face syndromes).
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This condition is known as truncus arteriosus or persistent truncus arteriosus (the trunk "persists").
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