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Contour :: Contour (n.) The outline of a horizontal section of the ground, or of works of fortification..

Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..

Regime :: Regime (n.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform regime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections..

Arbor Vitae :: Arbor vitae () The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section..

Callisection :: Callisection (n.) Painless vivisection; -- opposed to sentisection.

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.

Profile :: Profile (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc..

Hunker :: Hunker (n.) Originally, a nickname for a member of the conservative section of the Democratic party in New York; hence, one opposed to progress in general; a fogy..

Osteotomy :: Osteotomy (n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

Decussation :: Decussation (n.) Act of crossing at an acute angle, or state of being thus crossed; an intersection in the form of an X; as, the decussation of lines, nerves, etc..

Springer :: Springer (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting..

Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system..

Abdomen :: Abdomen (n.) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda..

Splenotomy :: Splenotomy (n.) Dissection or anatomy of the spleen.

Bisection :: Bisection (n.) Division into two parts, esp. two equal parts..

Resurrectionist :: Resurrectionist (n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection..

Ellipsoid :: Ellipsoid (n.) A solid, all plane sections of which are ellipses or circles. See Conoid, n., 2 (a)..

Zootomy :: Zootomy (n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

Antivivisection :: Antivivisection (n.) Opposition to vivisection.

Intersection :: Intersection (n.) The point or line in which one line or surface cuts another.

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