Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collective blood-vessel, or a common trunk whence several arteries branch: specifically applied to the terminal portion of the truncus arteriosus of lower vertebrates.
- noun In botany, the peculiar boat-shaped sorus of certain ferns of the order Marattiaceæ. Also
synange .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The divided part beyond the pylangium in the aortic trunk of the amphibian heart.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The divided part beyond the
pylangium in theaortic trunk of theamphibian heart .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek a hollow vessel.
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Examples
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This truncus consists of two parts: the first, the conus or pylangium (c.a.), muscular, contractile, and containing a series of valves; the second, the bulbus or synangium (b.a.), without valves and pulsatile.
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