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cubitus
[ kyoo-bi-tuhs ]
noun
plural cubiti
- a longitudinal vein in the rear portion of the wing of an insect.
- Anatomy.
- the forearm.
- Now Rare. the ulna.
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Election Lexicon assumes most readers would rather their surgeons knew their gluteal adipose from their cubitus.
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When this angle is increased, the attitude is described as one of cubitus valgus.
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The Latin t in words like cubitus was generally softened in old French, and was afterwards dropped altogether.
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Basilar space: Odonata; that area at base of wings, between media and cubitus.
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Secondary displacement is liable to occur, however, during the process of union, producing alterations in the “carrying angle†of the limb—cubitus varus or cubitus valgus.
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