Word Meanings - SACROVERTEBRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.

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• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• COLUMN
  A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and capital. See Order. 2. Anything resembling, in form or position, a column an architecture;
• VERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to a vertebræ, or the vertebral column; spinal; rachidian. 2. Vertebrate.
• COLUMNARITY
  The state or quality of being columnar.
• ANGLEWISE
  In an angular manner; angularly.
• COLUMNIATION
  The employment or arrangement of columns in a structure. Gwilt.
• ANGLED
  Having an angle or angles; -- used in compounds; as, right- angled, many-angled, etc. The thrice three-angled beechnut shell. Bp. Hall.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• COLUMNED
  Having columns. Troas and Ilion's columned citadel. Tennyson.
• SACRUM
  That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis. Note: It may consist of a single vertebra or of several more or less consolidated. In man it forms the dorsal, or posterior, wall of the pelvis,
• IMMEDIATELY
  1. In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous. God's acceptance of it either immediately by himself, or mediately by the hands of the bishop.
• ANGLESITE
  A native sulphate of lead. It occurs in white or yellowish transparent, prismatic crystals.
• VERTEBRALLY
  At or within a vertebra or vertebræ; -- distinguished from interverterbrally.
• COLUMNATED
  Having columns; as, columnated temples.
• ANGLES
  An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land . The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.
• ANGLEMETER
  An instrument to measure angles, esp. one used by geologists to measure the dip of strata.
• ANGLEWORM
  A earthworm of the genus Lumbricus, frequently used by anglers for bait. See Earthworm.
• COLUMNAR
  Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column. Columnar epithelium , epithelium in which the cells are priismatic in form, and set upright on the surface they cover. -- Columnar structure , a structure
• BRANGLE
  A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift. (more info) brangle to shake, menace; probably a variant of wrangle, confused
• UNTANGLE
  To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread. Untangle but this cruel chain. Prior.
• QUINQUEANGLED
  Having five angles; quinquangular.
• TRIANGLE
  A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles. Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A
• SEMICOLUMNAR
  Like a semicolumn; flat on one side and round on the other; imperfectly columnar.
• WIDE-ANGLE
  Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- applied to certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinary purposes have an angle of 50º or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover as much as 100º and are useful for photographing
• FANGLE
  Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.
• NEWFANGLENESS
  Newfangledness. Chaucer. Proud newfangleness in their apparel. Robynson .
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• STRANGLE HOLD
  In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
• NEWFANGLED
  1. Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Disposed to change; inclined to novelties; given to new theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. . "Newfangled men." Latimer.
• DANGLE
  To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion. he'd rather on a gibbet dangle Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle. Hudibras. From her lifted hand Dangled a length of ribbon. Tennyson. To dangle about or after, to hang upon importunately;
• EQUIANGLED
  Equiangular. Boyle.
• RIGHT-ANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.