Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
innominatum . - noun In anatomy: The innominate or brachiocephalic artery; the anonyma; one of the great arteries arising from the arch of the aorta.
- noun An innominate or brachiocephalic vein; a vein which joins another to form a precava or superior caval vein.
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Examples
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The hip bones are large, irregularly shaped bones, very firm and strong, and are sometimes called the haunch bones or _ossa innominata_
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The different parts of the first division, or external ear, are described by anatomists under the name of the helix, antihelix, tragus, antitragus, the lobe, cavitas innominata, the scapha, and the concha.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 Various
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H pelvic girdle, or "ossa innominata" (ilium, ischium, and pubes anchylosed);
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A variety of lords, squires, generals, _ossa innominata_ followed, for whom the Chancellor cared perhaps about as much as I did.
The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 Various
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The hipbones are called in Latin the ossa innominata (nameless bones) and each hipbone is composed of three bones: the ilium, the ischium, and the os pubis.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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THE HIP BONES, called by anatomists the innominata, or nameless bones, form an irregular basin styled the _pelvis_ (_pelvis_, a basin).
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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A nice little daughter that would dance and flirt and turn the house upside down -- that was what I was entitled to -- and I got a brilliant young physician who specializes on the _os innominata_, or something equally thrilling!
The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931
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These appearances were propagated into the arteria innominata.
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The inferior surface rests upon and is continuous with the upward prolongation of the tegmentum (subthalamic tegmental region), in front of which it is related to the substantia innominata of Meynert.
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The substantia innominata of Meynert is a stratum consisting partly of gray and partly of white substance, which lies below the anterior part of the thalamus and lentiform nucleus.
jaime_d commented on the word innominata
an unnamed thing. From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010