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Definition of Limbus
1. Noun. A border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure.
Definition of Limbus
1. Noun. (medicine biology) A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Limbus
1. a distinctive border [n -BUSES or -BI]
Medical Definition of Limbus
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1. An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment. "As far from help as Limbo is from bliss." (Shak) "A Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of fools." (Milton)
The limbus patrum was considered as a place for the souls of good men who lived before the coming of our Savior. The limbus infantium was said to be a similar place for the souls of unbaptized infants. To these was added, in the popular belief, the limbus fatuorum, or fool's paradise, regarded as a receptacle of all vanity and nonsense.
2. Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Limbus
Literary usage of Limbus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ophthalmic surgery by Josef Meller (1908)
"The incision for iridectomy in glaucoma does not penetrate the sclera at the
limbus, but 1-5- mm. behind it. The line cd (Fig. 96) shows the direction of ..."
2. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1908)
"AH tumors having their origin in the corneal limbus are of comparatively ...
According to Parsons,1 the first case of primary sarcoma of the limbus was ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"LIMBECK, the same as Alembic, qv limbus. — Lat. ¡imbus, a border, edging, edge.
... Lat. limbo (governed by the prep, in), abl. case of limbus, a border; ..."
4. Symbolik Oder Systematische Darstellung Des Symbolischen Lehrbegriffs Der by Rudolf Hugo Hofmann (1857)
"... ben sinus Abrahami ober limbus patrum alé ... b«m limbus ... erlitte« in bem
limbus patrum nut ..."
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