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Definition of Calyces
1. calyx [n] - See also: calyx
Medical Definition of Calyces
1. Plural of calyx. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calyces
Literary usage of Calyces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"calyces \-flowered (Calamagrostis of authors), t Corolla awned. HAB. Shady moist,
places, but not ... U- ** calyces many-flowered (Arundo of authors). 4. ..."
2. Practical Pathology: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by German Sims Woodhead (1892)
"(See Interstitial Nephritis, § 238 et seq.) DILATATION OF THE PELVIS AND calyces
OF THE KIDNEY. 243. Dilatation of the pelvis and calyces ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Protective devices of active buds. The sprouting of leaves. Pendent leaves and
pendent shoots. Flower-buds under water. Flower-buds with water-calyces, vi. ..."
4. A Text-book of Histology and Microscopic Anatomy of the Human Body by Ladislaus Szymonowicz, John Bruce MacCallum (1902)
"(«) Kidney calyces, and Pelvis ; Ureter and Urinary Bladder. In all of these
parts of the apparatus which conducts urine from the kidney we find the walls ..."
5. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"... but even before it begins to sustain pressure from the swelling pod, it is
much larger in diameter than those calyces which never expect to bear fruit. ..."
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