Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and surgery, a cavity or sinus.
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- noun medicine Cavity;
fossa .
Etymologies
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Borrowing from Latin
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Here the confusion of c with t begins the misleading; which is carried further by the gloss, 'Genetheum: locus subterraneus vbi habitant mulieres ad laborandum, et dicitur a geneth quod est mulier, et thesis positio, quia ibi ponebantur mulieres ad laborandum'; or 'Genetheum: absconsio subterranea mulierum'.
The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901
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