Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word profundus.

Examples

  • In any event, if you're going to resort to the time-worn "flame warrior" insult, I would think that "profundus maximus" would be a more apt description to hurl at your latin-loving present interlocutor.

    TRex, unethical, but at least ashamed (or scared). Ann Althouse 2007

  • One of the characteristics of the habitual masturbator is the strengthening, tightening, and overall disproportionate growth of the pronator quadratus, a small quadrangular muscle situated at the distal end of the forearm beneath the tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus and the flexor pollicis longus.

    An East Wind Coming Cover, Arthur Byron 1979

  • The principal points of communication are, first, by the branch, (ramus profundus,) I, Plate 18, which passes between the muscles of the little finger to join the deep arch beneath the long flexor tendons. 2nd, by the branch (superficialis volae) which springs from the radial artery,

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • But since the vessel in the situation specified can be reached with greater facility here than elsewhere lower down; and since, moreover, a ligature applied to it here will be sufficiently removed from the profundus branch above, and the seat of disease below, to produce the desired result, the choice of the operator is determined accordingly.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • [423] 'Of an insatiable avarice;' for _profundus_ is often used figuratively of passions and desires which have no bottom or end.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • The main vessel, after passing beneath the middle of Poupart's ligament, D, next gives off the profundus branch, N, to supply the thigh.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The profundus branch, N, springs from the outer side of the femoral artery usually at a distance of from one to two inches

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Tendons of flexor digitorum sublimis and profundus, and the lumbricales muscles cut and turned down.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • [Footnote] For, considering that the vessel gives off no important branch destined to supply any part of the thigh or leg between the profundus branch and those into which it divides below the popliteal space, the arrest to circulation will be the same in amount at whichever part of the vessel between these two points the ligature be applied.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • From the point where the profundus branch arises, down to the popliteal space, the vessel remains as an undivided trunk, being destined to supply the leg and foot.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.