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Definition of Centra
1. centrum [n] - See also: centrum
Medical Definition of Centra
1. Plural of centrum. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Centra
Literary usage of Centra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Concerning the formation of centra or bodies of the vertebrae, ... Chorda-centra
are possessed by all Elasmobranchs, potentially by Dipnoi and Holocephali. ..."
2. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1879)
"On the centra-surface of an Ellipsoid. By Professor CAYLEY. [Read March 7, 1870.]
THE centra-surface of any given surface is the locus of the centres of ..."
3. Elements of Quaternions by William Rowan Hamilton (1866)
"planes parallel to the director plane XLVII., which have their centra on the
focal line a, and are orthogonally projected into circlet on a plane ..."
4. Pope Leo XIII, His Life and Work by Julien de Narfon (1899)
"Usually Pio centra finds his master risen, or else the wonderful old man is still
at the desk where he had seated himself the night before, to put the last ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... which may, as it would seem, be proved by copies purporting to be certified
by the centra] office.5 § 1606. The memorials setting forth the firm names, ..."
6. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1892)
"centra-indications to Quinine.—An editorial article on the contra-indications to
quinine points out, among many important facts, how quinine may cause ..."
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