crusn.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > shape or figure > [noun] > two-dimensional > triangle > side or segment of
casus?a1560
hypotenuse?a1560
shank1587
leg1603
crure1610
hypotenusal1648
crus1712
1712 tr. H. More Scholia Antidote Atheism 144 in H. More Coll. Philos. Writings (ed. 4) All the Crura's EG, EH, EI, EC, are easily demonstrated to be equal to the Crus E.
2. Anatomy.
a. The leg or hind limb; spec. the part between the knee and the ankle, the shank.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > leg > lower leg > [noun]
shankOE
crus1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crus, among Anatomists, is all that Part of the Body which reacheth from the Buttocks to the Toes.
b. Applied to various parts occurring in pairs or sets and resembling or likened to legs. crura of the cerebellum, crura of the cerebrum, crura of the fornix, and crura of the medulla oblongata, strands of nerve-fibres in the brain; crura of the diaphragm, two tendinous and muscular bundles, one on each side, connecting the diaphragm with the lumbar vertebræ; crura of the penis, crura of the clitoris, bodies forming the attachments of those organs, one on each side of the pubic arch. Also applied to the two processes of the incus and those of the stapes (bones of the ear).
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [noun] > symmetry > one of a pair
crus1728
platetrope1882
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Crura of the Medulla Oblongata, are two of the four Roots whence the Medulla Oblongata springs, in the Brain.
1783 H. Watson in Med. Communications 1 186 The crura of the diaphragm..were removed.
1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. 271 The central stem, or crus, around which each hemisphere of the cerebellum is developed.
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