RAPHE
\ɹˈaf], \ɹˈaf], \ɹ_ˈa_f]\
Definitions of RAPHE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In bot., a term applied to parts which look as if they had been sewn together; in seeds, the channel of vessels which connects the chalaza with the hilum; in umbelliferous plants, the line of junction of the two halves of which their fruit is composed; in anat., the raised seam-like line which runs along the perinaeum to the anus.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A name given to prominent lines resembling a raised stitch. Such is the raphe or tramis which divides the scrotum into two parts, and which extends from the anterior part of the anus to the extremity of the penis. The name Raphe seu Raphe superior seu Linea Mediana seu Sutura corporis callosi externa seu chorda longitudinalis Lancisii is, also, given to two prominent linea which are longitudinal and parallel, and are seen at the upper surface of the corpus callosum, extending from the anterior to the posterior extremity of that commissure.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Literally, a seam; hence (its ordinary meaning) a line projecting above the surrounding surface like a seam, especially the line that marks the junction of the two lateral halves of the scrotum.
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In anatomy and surgery, a suture.
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In botany, the portion of the funiculus which becomes adnate to the body of the ovule in seeds.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
