Definition of Sellae

1. sella [n] - See also: sella

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sellae

sell off
sell on
sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
sell one's soul
sell oneself short
sell out
sell past the close
sell short
sell someone a bill of goods
sell someone a pup
sell up
sell wolf tickets
sella
sella turcica
sellable
sellae (current term)
sellaite
sellar
sellas
selle
selled
sellee
sellees
sellenders
seller
seller's market
sellers' market
sellers' markets
sellery
selles

Literary usage of Sellae

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

1. University of Toronto Studies by University of Toronto (1900)
"Their upper extremities rise higher than the cranial edge of the dorsum sellae between them, and hence the latter is concave cranially, as well as ventrally ..."

2. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1919)
"At the superior angles of the dorsum sellae are little tubercles which are ... The sella turcica is limited above by the diaphragma sellae, which is a ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Behind the chiasmatic groove is an olive-like elevation, the tuberculum sellae; and still more posteriorly, a deep depression, the sella turcica, ..."

4. The Third World Council: That Is, the Third Council of the Whole Christian by James Chrystal (1908)
"In the "Appendix to the Indices," page 589, volume III of the ten-volume edition of Bingham, Oxford, AD, 1850, I find the locality of sellae mentioned as ..."

5. A Latin Grammar by William Gardner Hale, Carl Darling Buck (1903)
"... (O) seat sellae, (O) seats Abl. sella, froin, with, or in a sellis, from, with, or in (the) seat (the) seats Remarks on the Case-Forms 66. ..."

6. A Latin Grammar by William Gardner Hale, Carl Darling Buck (1903)
"... (the) seats Dat. sellae, to or for a (the) seat sellis, to or for (the) seats Ace. sellam, a (the) seat sellas, (the) seats Voc. sella, (O) seat sellae, ..."

7. A Latin Grammar by William Gardner Hale, Carl Darling Buck (1903)
"... of (the) seats Dat. sellae, to or for a (the) seat sellis, ... (O) seat sellae, (O) seats Abl. sella, from, with, or in a sellis, from, with, ..."

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