Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Between two columns; specifically, in anatomy, extending between the pillars or columns of the external abdominal ring.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Between columns or pillars

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  • adjective Between columns.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ columnar

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Examples

  • Note 111: "(In porticu) a structure that provides the intercolumnia [intercolumnar loci] often recommended as backgrounds for memory work."

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The portico, entered by two steps, had a depth of 7.74 meters and intercolumnar space of 2.42 meters.

    Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Antoninus Pius Report 2 2003

  • The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Wren noticed that the intercolumnar spacing was less irregular to the east.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

  • In other instances, the two bands of the aponeurosis, known as the "pillars of the ring," together with the transverse fibres, or "intercolumnar fascia," firmly embrace and support the cord as far inwards as the point

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Scarpa, and, others, I find attempts made to establish a distinction between what is called the "intercolumnar fascia" and the "spermatic fascia," and just as if these were structures separable from each other or from the aponeurotic sheath of the external oblique muscle.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The forms of Morrison and Vogelstein almost blocked the generous intercolumnar space as shoulder to shoulder they moved away between the yellow marble pillars and under the green and gold ceiling.

    The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather

  • The Intercrural Fascia (intercolumnar or external spermatic fascia) is a thin membrane, prolonged downward around the surface of the cord and testis (see page 411).

    XI. Splanchnology. 3c. The Male Genital Organs 1918

  • The Intercrural Fibers (fibræ intercrurales; intercolumnar fibers).

    IV. Myology. 6d. The Muscles and Fasciæ of the Abdomen 1918

  • There are invariably two naves crossing each other at right angles, the upper end of which, rounded off in a half circle, forms the choir; there are always two lower-pitched side-aisles for the processions—the chapels—sort of lateral passages communicating with the nave by its intercolumnar spaces.

    I. Notre Dame. Book III 1917

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