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Definition of Cristae
1. crista [n] - See also: crista
Medical Definition of Cristae
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cristae
Literary usage of Cristae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"... presence of mucin, finds access along the sheath of the auditory nerve into
the subdural and subarachnoid spaces of the brain. § 826. The three cristae ..."
2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1900)
"The relatively long hairs of the cristae, exceedingly long in some of the lower
... Moreover even such fitness as may seem to be present in the cristae ..."
3. A Text-book of Psychology by Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"Maculae and cristae are all, of the same general type: there is a local thickening
of the membranous wall, upon which rests a little field of hair-cells. ..."
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