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Definition of Divarications
1. divarication [n] - See also: divarication
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divarications
Literary usage of Divarications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1814)
"With obtuse, spreading irregular flattish divarications, arising from the same
base ; usually a short stalk. Plate xi. fig. 1, 8. ..."
2. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey (1889)
"Neither are the valves present, in order ' that the blood may be retained in the
divarications or smaller trunks and minuter branches, and not be suffered ..."
3. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"Neither are the valves present, in order that the blood may be retained in the
divarications or smaller trunks and minuter branches, and not be suffered to ..."
4. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst (1910)
"Neither are the valves present, in order that the blood may be retained in the
divarications or smaller trunks and minuter branches, and not be suffered to ..."
5. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1805)
"... its terminal branches pointed, equal and level ; angles of the divarications
acute. SYN. ... its divarications forming acute angles, in which laft ..."
6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1846)
"Each particular trunk, with its divarications of the shaggy chorion, forms a lobe or
... It is in the spaces between the divarications of the chorion, ..."
7. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds by George Montagu, James Rennie (1831)
"... or swelling at the lower extremity; and the divarications at the
bottom, (bronchia?,) which connect the windpipe, (trachea,) with the lungs. ..."
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