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ramus

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ramus [′rā·məs]
(anatomy)
A slender bone process branching from a large bone.
(vertebrate zoology)
The barb of a feather.
(zoology)
The branch of a structure such as a blood vessel, nerve, arthropod appendage, and so on.
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But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, "whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
The shape, as well as the breadth and length of the ramus of the lower jaw, varies in a highly remarkable manner.
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