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Definition of Ramify

1. Verb. Have or develop complicating consequences. "These actions will ramify"

2. Verb. Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures. "These plants ramify early and get to be very large"

3. Verb. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork. "The road forks"

Definition of Ramify

1. v. t. To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

2. v. i. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

Definition of Ramify

1. Verb. To divide into branches or subdivisions. ¹

2. Verb. (figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ramify

1. to divide into branches [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Medical Definition of Ramify

1. 1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant. "When they [asparagus plants] . . . Begin to ramify." (Arbuthnot) 2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject. To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme. Origin: F. Ramifier, LL. Ramificare, fr. L. Ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp) to make. See -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramify

rami vestibulares arteriae labyrinthi rami zygomatici nervi facialis ramicotomy ramidus ramie ramier ramiers ramies ramifiability ramification

ramifications ramified ramifies ramiflorous ramiform ramify (current term) ramifying ramigerous ramilie ramilies

ramillie ramillies ramin ramins ramiparous ramipril ramiprilat ramis ramisection ramitis

Literary usage of Ramify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1876)
"... ramify throughout the whole interior of the animal, and connect with breathing pores (stigmata) in the sides of the body. They do not breathe through ..."

2. Guide to the Study of Insects: And a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"... ramify throughout the whole interior of the animal, and connect with breathing pores (stigmata) in the sides of the body. They do not breathe through ..."

3. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"... ramify throughout the whole interior of the animal, and connect with breathing pores (stigmata) in the sirles of the body. They do not breathe through ..."

4. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1870)
"... ramify throughout the whole interior of the animal, and connect with breathing pores (stigmata) in the sides of the body. They do not breathe through ..."

5. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"which the blood-vessels can ramify is lessened, and these, therefore, undergo absorption. There is consequently a diminished supply of blood, ..."

6. Nervous and mental diseases by Archibald Church (1914)
"Between the pial layers the cerebral vessels ramify. As they pene- f. 25.—Diagram of cerebral meninge« and cortex. D, dur» mater; SD, subdural space; P. A, ..."

7. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain by Archibald Geikie (1897)
"... on the whole, parallel with the bedding of the sheets in which they occur, but without rigidly following it, since they undulate and even ramify. ..."

8. Manual of the dissection of the human body by Luther Holden (1851)
"... and the numerous arteries which ramify upon the back part of the capsule of the joint. Trace the continuation of the superior profunda artery (see § 40) ..."

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