Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, an angle: used in phrases like
angulus oris , the corner of the mouth; angulus mandibulæ, the angle of the mandible or lower jaw-bone; angulus costæ, the angle of a rib. - noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of mollusks.
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- noun anatomy An
angle , acorner , such as the angular portion of the stomach between the lesser curvature and thepylorus .
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Examples
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The Latin name angulus Ludovici is not infrequently mistranslated into English as the angle of Ludwig.
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O si angulus ille proximus accedat, qui nunc deformat agellum.
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“Ille praeter omnes angulus ridet,” muttered little
The Virginians 2006
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_Haemum_ is similarly the transmitted reading at _Met_ VI 87 (of the tapestry created by Minerva) 'Threiciam Rhodopen habet angulus unus et _Haemon_' and _Met_ X 76-77 (of Orpheus) 'in altam/se recipit
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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(Gr. [Greek: koilae], a hollow) or _angulus lunularis_, biconcave.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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ANGULATE (Lat. _angulus_, an angle), shaped with corners or angles; an adjective used in botany and zoology for the shape of stems, leaves and wings.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The superior border is oval and articulates with the manubrium, the junction of the two forming the sternal angle (angulus Ludovici19).
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"Guide to Good Usage" [20] or "One Hundred Words Mispronounced," warns his readers against masclus and anglus for masculus and angulus.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Frank Frost Abbott 1892
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For its use in confections this will suffice from the "Apparatus Plantarum" of Laurembergius, 1632: "In re familiari vix ullus est telluris habitatus angulus ubi non sit Croci quotodiana usurpatio, aspersi vel incocti cibis."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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For this was clearly the 'angulus iste,' the nook which 'restored him to himself' -- this the lovely spot which his steward longed to exchange for the slums of Rome.
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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