ISTHMUS
\ˈɪsθməs], \ˈɪsθməs], \ˈɪ_s_θ_m_ə_s]\
Definitions of ISTHMUS
- 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.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 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
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
By Oddity Software
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A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the of Panama; the of Suez, etc.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. A constriction connecting two larger parts of an organ or other anatomical structure. 2. A narrow passage connecting two larger cavities.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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Neck of land connecting two larger tracts.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A neck of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A narrow structure connecting two larger parts, as those of aorta, acoustic meatus, limbic lobe, thyroid, etc..
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A tongue of land joining a peninsula to a continent, or which separates two seas. Anatomists have given the name Isthmus of the Fauces, to the strait which separates the mouth from the pharynx. It is formed above by the velum palati and uvula; at the sides, by the pillars of the fauces and the tonsils; and below, by the base of the tongue. Also, the Fauces.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Any narrow passage, like that of the fauces.
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The narrow portion of the brain between the cerebrum and the cerebellum and medulla oblongata.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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