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Thyroarytenoid () Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
Thyrohyal () One of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.
Thyrohyoid () Of or pertaining to the thyroid cartilage of the larynx and the hyoid arch.
Thyroid () Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.
Thyroid () Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.
Thyroideal () Thyroid.
Thyrotomy () The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.
Thyrse () A thyrsus.
Thyrsoid () Alt. of Thyrsoidal
Thyrsoidal () Having somewhat the form of a thyrsus.
Thyrsi () of Thyrsus
Thyrsus () A staff entwined with ivy, and surmounted by a pine cone, or by a bunch of vine or ivy leaves with grapes or berries. It is an attribute of Bacchus, and of the satyrs and others engaging in Bacchic rites.
Thyrsus () A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
Thysanopter () One of the Thysanoptera.
Thysanoptera () A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinct order, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They are all of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings with rudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices of plants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious to crops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.
Thysanopteran () One of the Thysanoptera.
Thysanopterous () Of or pertaining to the Thysanoptera.
Thysanura () An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.
Thysanuran () One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.
Thysanurous () Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.
Thysbe () A common clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe).
Thyself () An emphasized form of the personal pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with thou; as, thou thyself shalt go; that is, thou shalt go, and no other. It is sometimes used, especially in the predicate, without thou, and in the nominative as well as in the objective case.
Tiar () A tiara.
Tiara () A form of headdress worn by the ancient Persians. According to Xenophon, the royal tiara was encircled with a diadem, and was high and erect, while those of the people were flexible, or had rims turned over.
Tiara () The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.
Tiaraed () Adorned with, or wearing, a tiara.
Tib-cat () A female cat.
Tibiae () of Tibia
Tibia () The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.
Tibia () The fourth joint of the leg of an insect. See Illust. under Coleoptera, and under Hexapoda.
Tibia () A musical instrument of the flute kind, originally made of the leg bone of an animal.
Tibial () Of or pertaining to a tibia.
Tibial () Of or pertaining to a pipe or flute.
Tibial () A tibial bone; a tibiale.
Tibialia () of Tibiale
Tibiale () The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.
Tibicinate () To play on a tibia, or pipe.
Tibio- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the tibia; as, tibiotarsus, tibiofibular.
Tibiotarsal () Of or pertaining to both to the tibia and the tarsus; as, the tibiotarsal articulation.
Tibiotarsal () Of or pertaining to the tibiotarsus.
Tibiotarsi () of Tibiotarsus
Tibiotarsus () The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.
Tibrie () The pollack.
Tic () A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic.
Tical () A bean-shaped coin of Siam, worth about sixty cents; also, a weight equal to 236 grains troy.
Tical () A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.
Tice () To entice.
Tice () A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Ticement () Enticement.
Tichorrhine () A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.
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