CALCAR
\kˈalkɑː], \kˈalkɑː], \k_ˈa_l_k_ɑː]\
Definitions of CALCAR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
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A spur, or spurlike prominence.
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A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
By Oddity Software
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A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
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A spur, or spurlike prominence.
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A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.
By Noah Webster.
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A hollow prolongation or tube at the base of a sepal or petal; a spur-like process on the leg or wing of birds which is not a digit; a tibial spine in insects; a process of the calcaneum which supports the web between the leg and tail in bats; the pre-hallux of a frog.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Calcaneum, Ergot-c. Avis, Hippocampus minor.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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