Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, a part, portion, or branch.
- noun The middle part of the cervix uteri, which is vaginal behind and supravaginal in front.
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Examples
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The auditory nerve is a portion of the seventh pair, which is called the portio mollis or soft portion.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Keeping the submarine force on modified alert (not allowing any portio n of the force to be on full alert) delays the capability to retaliate in event of a nuc lear strike.
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* Tu spes mea [et portio mea] in terra viventium, ad mutandum terrarum locum pro salute animae mea, et Carthagini stimulos quibus inde avellerer admovebas, et Romae illecebras quibus attraherer, proponebas mihi per homines, qui diligunt vitam mortuam, hinc insana facientes, inde vana pollicentes, et ad corrigendos gressus meos, utebaris occulte et illorum et mea perversitate: [5698] 1
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Law, _Tit_., 62: _de alodis_, 6: de terra vero Salica in mulierem nulla portio hereditatis transit, sed hoc virilis sexus adquirat, hoc est, filii in ipsa hereditate succedunt.
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Tunc ego accedens ad monasterium canonum Nicaenorum decreta relegi, in quibus continetur: quia si quae reliquerit virum et thorum, in quo bene vexit, spreverit, dicens quia non sit ei portio in illa caelestis regni gloria qui fuerit coniugio copulatus, anathema sit.
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Cernitur in ea quædarn Dominicæ crucis portio, (sicut sæpe multorum miraculorum argumento probatum est).
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Extra Ecclesiæ pacem, extra concordiam, extra eam matrem cujus portio debet esse, qui martyr est.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The orbicularis oculi muscle, which is principally supplied by the portio-dura nerve, is paralyzed, though it still retains a partial power of contraction, owing to the anatomical fact that some terminal twigs of the third or motor pair of nerves of the orbit branch into this muscle.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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B. _ v. _Lud-aigen_, also points to the connection of _Lud_ with hluz-hlut, sors, portio; but he rather inclines to derive it from the Low-Latin,
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It has been surmised that LEDE was connected with the O.N. hlÿt [4] -- which not only signified _sors, portio_, but _res consistentia_ -- and the A. - S. hlet, hlyt, lot, portion, inheritance: thus, in the A. - S.Psal. xxx.
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