APPARATUS
\ˌapəɹˈe͡ɪtəs], \ˌapəɹˈeɪtəs], \ˌa_p_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t_ə_s]\
Definitions of APPARATUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"
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equipment designed to serve a specific function
By Princeton University
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(anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function; "the breathing apparatus"
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equipment designed to serve a specific function
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Things provided as means to some end.
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Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.
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A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
By Oddity Software
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Things provided as means to some end.
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Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.
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A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function; as, the respiratory apparatus.
By Noah Webster.
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An outfit of tools, utensils, or instruments adapted to, or necessary for, any branch of work, or for the performance of an experiment or operation; a set of such appliances; machinery: mechanism.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A collection of instruments adapted for a special purpose. 2. An instrument made up of several parts. 3. A system, the group of glands, ducts, blood-vessels, muscles, or other anatomical structures concerned in the performance of some function.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A collection of instruments or organs.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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This word signifies a collection of instruments, &c., for any operation whatever. (F.) Appareil. In Surgery, it means the methodical arrangement of all the instruments and objects necessary for an operation or dressing. By extension, the French give the name Appareil, Capsa chirurgica, to the case or drawers in which the apparatus is arranged. Apparatus has likewise been applied to the different modes of operating for the stone. See Lithotomy. In Physiology, Apparatus, (F.) Appareil, is applied to a collection of organs, all of which work towards the same end. A system of organs comprehends all those formed of a similar texture. An apparatus often comprehends organs of very different nature. In the former, there is analogy of structure; in the latter, analogy of function.
By Robley Dunglison
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Mechanical appliances used in operations and experiments.
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The complex of parts which unite in any function.
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Cystotomy or lithotomy.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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An instrument made up of several parts.
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A system of organs concerned in the performance of some function, as lacrimal a., consisting of the 1. gland, 1. canal, 1. sac, and naso-1. duct.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Things provided as means to some end; especially, a full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for performing scientific experiments or operations.
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