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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, the innominate artery.

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  • Seated in his silent parlors, walking moodily through the beautiful rooms, haunted with memories of the splendid "anonyma" whose reign is yet visible, he dreams of his wasted past, his lonely future.

    The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Richard Savage 1874

  • Tomus 2: Index disputationum; Maestlinus-Zyra, Opera anonyma

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  • The Left Innominate Vein (v. anonyma sinistra), about 6 cm. in length, begins behind the sternal end of the clavicle and runs obliquely downward and to the right behind the upper half of the manubrium sterni to the sternal end of the first right costal cartilage, where it unites with the right innominate vein to form the superior vena cava.

    VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax 1918

  • The Right Innominate Vein (v. anonyma dextra) is a short vessel, about 2.5 cm. in length, which begins behind the sternal end of the clavicle, and, passing almost vertically downward, joins with the left innominate vein just below the cartilage of the first rib, close to the right border of the sternum, to form the superior vena cava.

    VII. The Veins. 3c. The Veins of the Upper Extremity and Thorax 1918

  • The _thyreoidea ima_ artery -- an inconstant branch of the anonyma (innominate) or of the aorta -- runs in front of the trachea as far up as the thyreoid isthmus.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • And then he fled away, leaving the gay loiterers still discussing the lovely anonyma whose advent was now the one sensation of the hour.

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

  • The young staff officer was so elated by the apparently flattering selection of the fair anonyma that he never considered the idea of possible foul play.

    A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

  • For Rand had already feared this; had recalled the few infelicitous relations, legal and illegal, which were common to the adjoining camp, -- the flagrantly miserable life of the husband of a San Francisco anonyma who lived in style at the Ferry, the shameful carousals and more shameful quarrels of the Frenchman and Mexican woman who "kept house" at "the Crossing," the awful spectacle of the three half-bred Indian children who played before the cabin of a fellow miner and townsman.

    The Twins of Table Mountain Bret Harte 1869

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