axis(BONE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bone structures
acetabular
acetabulum
acromial
acromioclavicular
acromion
foramen magnum
frontal bone
glenoid
gnathic
gynecoid
osteology
osteophyte
osteotomy
parietal
parietal bone
tibiotalar
TMJ
trapezoidal
triquetrum
true rib

atlas | American Dictionary

atlas
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæt·ləs/
a book containing maps:
a road atlas

Examples of atlas

atlas
The atlas is not merely a treasure of geographical information but also a banquet for the eyes.
If somehow, difficult to believe, this magic has passed you by, then this magnificent atlas is the perfect remedy.
Other data come from continental meetings, expert consultations, publications, catalogues, atlases, and language centers.
Like atlas, some of these were originally built for processing speech corpora and have been extended for handling text.
A gene expression atlas of the central nervous system based on bacterial artificial chromosomes.
The word lists from the atlas usually contained one word per concept, but sometimes more.
Figure 10 shows the atlases for the global force conditioning index.
The detailed descriptions and illustrations provide an anatomical atlas that will be of great help to those working on tetrapod evolution and interrelationships.
By the beginning of the nineteenth century maps and atlases were regularly associating territory with the ownership of discrete and delimited lands.
They were part of a larger atlas of the ancient and modern world.
The list provides an example of both the breadth of the atlas and the lack of systemization.
As regards the maps, which ought to be the main focus of an atlas, accuracy has not been a high priority.
There will be no attempt to supply ordinary topographical maps, as it is felt that students should always use a good atlas with the text-books.
The last plates of the atlas could be seen as an instance of this strategy.
The core of the book, an atlas of black-and-white elevation maps, occupies 177 pages (of which 20 are blank sheets).
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