Medical Definition of Sella
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1. A seat for a rider, usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
2. A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
3. A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
4. A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sella
Literary usage of Sella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Readings: An Introduction to the Study of Literature by Charles Madison Curry (1903)
"sella is a fairy tale and is very different from those poems by which Bryant is
... sella appeared in Bryant's volume called Thirty Poems, issued in 1863. ..."
2. A History of Italian Unity: Being a Political History of Italy from 1814 to 1871 by Bolton King (1912)
"sella, like Lanza, came from a lower- middle-class family of Piedmont; like Lanza,
he was honest, ... But sella belonged to a different type of mind. ..."
3. American Poems: Longfellow, Whittier, Bryant, Holmes, Lowell, Emerson by Horace Elisha Scudder (1894)
"[sella is the name given by the Vulgate to one of the wives of Lamech, ...
sella is of the human race, gifted with a soul, but having a longing for life ..."
4. Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head by Arthur Schueller (1918)
"Sketch of a sella that is otherwise normal except for a connect ing bone ...
sella of a child nine years old 1(>6 41. sella of a child twelve years old 167 ..."
5. The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body by Matthew Baillie (1812)
"Aneurysm of the internal Carotid Arteries on the Side of the sella Turcica.
The internal carotid arteries are very apt in persons of an advanced age, ..."
6. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"[SED-], a seat, settle, chair, stool: in sella sedere : alta deducere sella, ...
sedebat in rostris in sella aurea : hoc de sella dixit: cónsules positi* ..."
7. Gallus: Or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Excursuses by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1903)
"A distinction is made between sella and cathedra, and the latter is assigned ...
But it cannot be said that the sella was formed like our chairs, ..."
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