Examples
“It is bounded below by the crest of the pubis; on either side by the margins of the opening in the aponeurosis, which are called the crura of the ring; and above, by a series of curved intercrural fibers.”
“For their anterior three-fourths they lie in intimate apposition with one another, but behind they diverge in the form of two tapering processes, known as the crura, which are firmly connected to the rami of the pubic arch.”
“Ulcerata crura, sitis ipsis adest immodica, pallidi, lingua sicca.”
“Vapores a cerebro trahendi sunt frictionibus universi, cucurbitulis siccis, humeris ac dorso affixis, circa pedes et crura.”
“This section is all about the clitoris and its many wonderful parts: clitoris, hood of clitoris, glans of clitoris, shaft of clitoris, suspensory ligament, crura, bulbs of the vestibule, and vestibular glands.”
“Super alios autem Anthropophagos Scythas, in quadam conualle magna Imai montis, regio est, quæ vocatur Abarimon, in qua syluestres viuunt homines, auersis post crura plantis, eximiæ velocitatis, passim cum feris vagantes.”
“Nam aliqui victi vltrà modum diabolica deuotione proijciunt se sub rotis currus præcedentis, vt frangantur sibi crura, brachia, latera, dorsa, nec non et colla in reuerentiam Dei sui (vt dicunt) a quo remunerationem sperant, venire ad Paradisum terrestrem.”
“Diuites autem habent gladios acutos in fine, ex vna tantum parte incidentes, et aliquantulum curuos: et habent equum armatum, crura etiam tecta.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Habent et equos armatos, crura etiam tecta, galeas et loricas.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Nam aliqui victi vltr� modum diabolica deuotione proijciunt se sub rotis currus pr鎐edentis, vt frangantur sibi crura, brachia, latera, dorsa, nec non et colla in reuerentiam Dei sui (vt dicunt) a quo remunerationem sperant, venire ad Paradisum terrestrem.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Parts of my body that my tongue can r...
fingers, toes - all of them, forearms, arms, hands, thighs, knees, popliteal fossae, crura, shoulders, chest - hardly, lips and 12 more...
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chained_bear see crus for a usage note, if you are over 18. Apr 10, 2008