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Definition of Sphenic
1. shaped like a wedge [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphenic
Literary usage of Sphenic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science and Art of Surgery: A Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases by John Eric Erichsen (1885)
"The only viscus which can be mistaken for the stomach is the transverse colon,
the left end of which immediately before the sphenic curvature may present in ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1893)
"(6) Within a few degrees of a line bisecting the acute angles in prisms of sphenic
habit. Remarks, No. 13. Straight extinction. No. 14. ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1879)
"... sliding over water," nor anything a tidal harbours into which 4T.1..1 !..._!.
... ^_i_ !_•_!- T_ _ _U_ i» _ _. sphenic could not enter. sion to .bout ..."
4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1863)
"... so abundant as to induce the authors of the report to term it sphenic granite.
This mineral has been long known to exist in the granite of parts of ..."
5. The Medical Times and Gazette (1867)
"Mr. Adams drew attention to this fact, for the consideration of those Surgeons
who contemplate excision of the organ for sphenic ..."
6. The Placenta, the organic nervous system, the blood, the oxygen, and the by John O'Reilly (1861)
"... the diaphragmatic, the sphenic, the gastric, the renal, the mesenteric, preside
over the secretion of the gastric juice, the secretion of the bile, ..."
7. The placenta, the organic nervous system, the blood, the oxygen, and the by John O'Reilly (1861)
"The semilunar, the hepatic, the diaphragmatic, the sphenic, the gastric, the
renal, the mesenteric, preside over the secretion of the gastric juice, ..."
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