Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy and zoology, a membrane or membranous envelop; a covering, as a veil or velum.
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Examples
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Revelare is velamentum levare; "to reveal is to take off the veil or covering."
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Aiia in humero eft, fed fuper trochleam radialem, haec minor a bicipitis tendine velamentum nacta.
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Hydatides, quibus rotunda, fuifque limitibus - circumfcripta figura eft, pro - pnumque velamentum aquam comprehendit, plerumque in celluJofis cavernulis
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(s) Exerc.anat. p. 197. glomeri velamentum circumponit: Theophilus Lobb
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