Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- One of the groups into which Edwards and Haime (1850) divide the corals: distinguished from
Aporosa , Tabulata, and Rugosa. It includes the Madreporidæ, Poritidæ, etc. Also calledPorosa . - The perforate foraminifers, a large group (subclass, order, or suborder) of filose protozoans inclosed in a test perforated with numerous foraminules besides the main opening, through all of which the thready pseudopods may protrude: opposed to Imperforata. Leading forms are the Textulariidæ, Lagenidæ, Globigerinidæ, Rotaliidæ, and Nummulinidæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to
Aporosa . - noun plural A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
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Argentine de praestigiis daemonum, cap. 20, adds, hypericon or St. John's wort, perforata herba, which by a divine virtue drives away devils, and is therefore fuga daemonum: all which rightly used by their suffitus,
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Un uomo si rende conto della sua natura: è solo un robot, e la realtà è solo un software su una scheda perforata.
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Temporis quinetiam certis, machina quaedam ex ligno ad formam ovi facta, sacra et mystica, uam foeminas aspicere haud licitam, decem plus minus uncias longa et circa quatuor lata insculpta ac figuris diversis ornata, et ultimam perforata partem ad longam (plerumque e crinibus humanis textam) inscrendam chordam cui nomen
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The uvea perforata (posterior layer of iris), though the definitions are not in all cases quite clear and definite.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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The axons of these cells are grouped together in a bundle, the fasciculus retroflexus of Meynert, which passes ventrally medial to the red nucleus and terminates in a small medial ganglion in the substantia perforata posterior, immediately in front of the pons, called the interpeduncular ganglion.
IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves 1918
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Of the genus Balanus, on the shores of Britain, we have ONE species (B. perforata Bruguiere), which you have not in the United States, in the same way as you exclusively have B. eburneus.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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The first order begins at the _substantia perforata_ and passes upward and around the corpus callosum toward the posterior margin of that body, thence descends to the base of the brain, and terminates near its origin.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Temporis quinetiam certis, machina quaedam ex ligno ad formam ovi facta, sacra et mystica, uam foeminas aspicere haud licitam, decem plus minus uncias longa et circa quatuor lata insculpta ac figuris diversis ornata, et ultimam perforata partem ad longam (plerumque e crinibus humanis textam) inscrendam chordam cui nomen "Mooyumkarr," extra castra in gyrum versata, stridore magno e percusso aere facto, libertatem coeundi juventuti esse tum concessam omnibus indicat.
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Temporis quinetiam certis, machina quaedam ex ligno ad formam ovi facta, sacra et mystica, uam foeminas aspicere haud licitam, decem plus minus uncias longa et circa quatuor lata insculpta ac figuris diversis ornata, et ultimam perforata partem ad longam (plerumque e crinibus humanis textam) inscrendam chordam cui nomen "Mooyumkarr," extra castra in gyrum versata, stridore magno e percusso aere facto, libertatem coeundi juventuti esse tum concessam omnibus indicat.
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Fol. contigua, in frugiferis orbiculata, verfus peripheriam caule perforata « alterna; in iu« nioribus non frugiferis vagina craffa, urceo - lata; decurrentia.
Summa plantarum 1789
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