processusn.

1648 J. March Reports ccxii. 140 How can the Processus according to the Writ be removed, when there is no Processus entred?

1877 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Oct. 779 The sequence of events variously described in science and philosophy as..the harmonies of monads, the processus of the absolute, and in many magnificent phrases, is in fact the series of changes in Permanent Possibilities of Sensation.

1891 G. G. Findlay tr. A. Sabatier Apostle Paul iv. iii. 256 A logical and inevitable processus.

1907 Times 28 Feb. 14/3 In order to throw light on what the doctors call the processus of the evil from which we are suffering.

2002 Hist. Scotl. Jan. 34/1 The real surprise about the investigation (or ‘processus’) of Mary Stuart as a candidate for canonisation is its date.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 2 Απόρυσις which the Latin interpretours call Processus, is thus: when a bone in any part, stretcheth forth his substaunce in excreasing maner.

1638 A. Read Man. Anat. Body of Man (new ed.) iii. iii. 420 Then to these are annexed processus mammillares or papillares, teatlike processes.]

1664 J. Evelyn Acct. Archit. in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 126 Like the processus of a bone in a mans leg.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. ii. 43 The other six [vertebrae of the neck of a crocodile], have each one Processus or Prominent Part, which is long, broad, sharp, and upright.

1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body ii. iii. 55 Temporalis, arises from the Os Frontis, Parietale, Sphænoides, and Temporis, and..is inserted externally into the Processus Corone of the Lower Jaw, which it pulls upwards.

1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 143 I cannot forbear to mention, that in this monkey the meatus, or the processus peritonœi, were closed as in men.

1805 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 95 200 The smallest muscle is fixed to the processus major, puling the malleus backward, and pressing its head against the joint of the incus.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds 862 The ‘pubis’ of Birds being in reality homologous with the postpubis of Dinosaurs and the processus lateralis pubis of other Reptiles.

1962 Lancet 19 May 1059/1 Closure of the processus vaginalis takes place at about full term, but only when the testis has fully descended.

1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iii. 325/2 Projecting backwards from near the middle of the margin is an angular process, the processus tubarius, which supports the pharyngeal end of the auditory tube.