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Definition of Sigmoids
1. sigmoid [n] - See also: sigmoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sigmoids
Literary usage of Sigmoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"By hooking up a valve of each set of sigmoids. 4. By inverting the auricles, &c.
(see Exp. passim), the first sound and alternate ventricular actions ..."
2. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1902)
"... the bicuspid valve healthy, pulmonary sigmoids healthy, and aortic sigmoids
slightly atheromatous at their base. The aorta was not dilated, ..."
3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1878)
"Immediately above the sigmoids the aorta is greatly dilated, measuring 100 mm.
across About 30 mm. above the sigmoids is a transverse slit in the inner coat ..."
4. Auscultation and Percussion: Together with the Other Methods of Physical by Samuel Jones Gee (1883)
"In the sixteenth post-mortem examination described in Ratio Medendi, vol.
i., Vienna, 1777, the aortic sigmoids were found so much diseased as to be quite ..."
5. The Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal (1870)
"Thus, according to this view, there are only four real bruits, two auriculo-ventricular
tones, and two sigmoids: at the apex, the first bruit originates at ..."
6. Provincial Medical & Surgical Journal (1843)
"... the aorta was slightly dilated just above the sigmoids and throughout the
arch; the descending aorta was also large as far as the renal arteries, ..."
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