carina

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"The apex of the carina is expanded into a two-lobed plain petal, the lobes of which are emarginate.

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  1. noun A keel-shaped ridge or structure, such as that on the breastbone of a bird or of the fused lower two petals of flowers of many members of the pea family.

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  • The biolimus A9-eluting Axxess stent, which is deployed at the level of the carina, permits access to distal branches that can subsequently be treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), including use of drug-eluting stents, an approach that is considered simpler than using multiple overlapping drug-eluting stents or stents plus balloon angioplasty. —  MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians
  • Her Introduction hey ik ben carina, ik ben 21 jaar woon in prov. groningen, studeer in emmen en assen. ik ben lief, betrouwbaar, spontaan, soms beetje gek, behulpzaam en impulsief. —  Meet Me at HOT or NOT
  • The Axxess stent (Devax, Lake Forest, CA) is one of a new breed of bifurcation stents intended for deployment at the level of the carina, thereby allowing easier access to the distal parent vessel and side branch, each of which can also be treated, if warranted, by PCI and provisional stenting. —  theHeart.org
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  • Amongst Papilionaceć absence of the carina or of the alć is not uncommon, as in Trifolium repens_, Faba vulgaris_, &c Moquin relates a case of the kind in the haricot bean, in which the carina was entirely absent, and another in the pea, where both carina and alć were missing, thus reducing the flower to the condition that is normal in Amorpha and Afzelia_. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
 

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  1. Latin carīna, keel; see kar- in Indo-European roots.
 

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