Axis (n.) The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name). |
Axis (n.) A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve |
Axis (n.) A straight line with respect to which the different parts of a magnitude are symmetrically arranged |
Axis (n.) The stem |
Axis (n.) The second vertebra of the neck, or vertebra dentata. |
Axis (n.) Also used of the body only of the vertebra, which is prolonged anteriorly within the foramen of the first vertebra or atlas, so as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon. |
Axis (n.) One of several imaginary lines, assumed in describing the position of the planes by which a crystal is bounded. |
Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design. |
Deviation (n.) The act of deviating |
Deviation (n.) The state or result of having deviated |
Deviation (n.) The voluntary and unnecessary departure of a ship from, or delay in, the regular and usual course of the specific voyage insured, thus releasing the underwriters from their responsibility. |
False-heart (a.) False-hearted. |
Heart (n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. |
Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like |
Heart (n.) The nearest the middle or center |
Heart (n.) Courage |
Heart (n.) Vigorous and efficient activity |
Heart (n.) That which resembles a heart in shape |
Heart (n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart |
Heart (n.) Vital part |
Heart (n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address. |
Heart (v. t.) To give heart to |
Heart (v. i.) To form a compact center or heart |
Heart-eating (a.) Preying on the heart. |
Heart-robbing (a.) Depriving of thought |
Heart-robbing (a.) Stealing the heart or affections |
Heart's-ease (n.) Ease of heart |
Heart's-ease (n.) A species of violet (Viola tricolor) |
Heart-spoon (n.) A part of the breastbone. |
Heart-whole (a.) Having the heart or affections free |
Heart-whole (a.) With unbroken courage |
Heart-whole (a.) Of a single and sincere heart. |
Heart-wounded (a.) Wounded to the heart with love or grief. |
Horizontal (a.) Pertaining to, or near, the horizon. |
Horizontal (a.) Parallel to the horizon |
Horizontal (a.) Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon |
Left (imp. & p. p.) of Leave |
Left (imp. & p. p.) of Leave. |
Left (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action of the limbs is usually weaker than on the other side |
Left (n.) That part of surrounding space toward which the left side of one's body is turned |
Left (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the opposition |
Left-hand (a.) Situated on the left |
Left-handed (a.) Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right |
Left-handed (a.) Clumsy |
Left-handed (a.) Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front |
Left-handedness (n.) Alt. of Left-handiness |
Left-handiness (n.) The state or quality of being left-handed |
Left-off (a.) Laid aside |
Lion-heart (n.) A very brave person. |
Plano-horizontal (a.) Having a level horizontal surface or position. |
diversion deviation digression deflection deflexion divagation | a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern), a diversion from the main highway, a digression into irrelevant details, a deflection from his goal |
left | a turn toward the side of the body that is on the north when the person is facing east, take a left at the corner |
cardiac massage heart massage | an emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrest |
heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
left field leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
deviation deviance | deviate behavior |
horizontal integration horizontal combination | absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level |
heart urchin | sea urchin having a heart-shaped body in a rigid spiny shell |
artificial heart | a pump that replaces the natural heart |
axis axis of rotation | the center around which something rotates |
cardiac monitor heart monitor | a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart |
checkroom left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
heart | a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it, he led the queen of hearts, hearts were trumps |
heart-lung machine | a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery, diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body |
heart valve | an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve |
Herschelian telescope off-axis reflector | a reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed |
horizontal bar high bar | gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends |
horizontal section | a mechanical drawing of an object as if made by a plane cutting through it horizontally |
horizontal stabilizer horizontal stabiliser tailplane | the horizontal airfoil of an aircraft's tail assembly that is fixed and to which the elevator is hinged |
horizontal surface level | a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line, park the car on the level |
horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
Jarvik heart Jarvik artificial heart | a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success |
left field leftfield left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
sodium thiopental phenobarbital phenobarbitone Luminal purple heart | a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative |
heart spirit | an inclination or tendency of a certain kind, he had a change of heart |
cardiac rhythm heart rhythm | the rhythm of a beating heart |
deviation | the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances |
heart mettle nerve spunk | the courage to carry on, he kept fighting on pure spunk, you haven't got the heart for baseball |
left-handedness sinistrality | preference for using the left hand |
left coronary artery | arises from the left aortic sinus, supplies the left side of the heart |
left gastric artery arteria gastrica sinistra | a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus |
left gastric vein vena gastrica sinistra | arises from a union of veins from the gastric cardia, runs in the lesser omentum, empties into the portal vein |
oblique vein of the left atrium vena obliqua atrii sinistri | a tributary of the coronary sinus, on the posterior wall of the left atrium |
posterior vein of the left ventricle vena posterior ventriculi sinistri | arises near the apex of the heart and empties into the coronary sinus |
heart pump ticker | the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs, its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body, he stood still, his heart thumping wildly |
athlete's heart | enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance |
biauriculate heart | a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles |
cardiac muscle heart muscle | the muscle tissue of the heart, adapted to continued rhythmic contraction |
ventricle heart ventricle | a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries |
left ventricle | the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta |
atrium cordis atrium of the heart | the upper chamber of each half of the heart |
right atrium right atrium of the heart atrium dextrum | the right upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the venae cavae and coronary sinus |
left atrium left atrium of the heart atrium sinistrum | the left upper chamber of the heart that receives blood from the pulmonary veins |
mitral valve bicuspid valve left atrioventricular valve | valve with two cusps, situated between the left atrium and the left ventricle |
heart valve cardiac valve | a valve to control one-way flow of blood |
left hemisphere left brain | the cerebral hemisphere to the left of the corpus callosum that controls the right half of the body |
left left hand | the hand that is on the left side of the body, jab with your left |
axis axis vertebra | the nd cervical vertebra, serves as a pivot for turning the head |