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Definition of Pecten

1. n. A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.

Definition of Pecten

1. Noun. (context: anatomy obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers. ¹

2. Noun. (anatomy) The pubic bone. ¹

3. Noun. (zoology) A genus of bivalve molluscs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pecten

1. a comblike anatomical part [n -TENS or -TINES]

Medical Definition of Pecten

1. A bivalve mollusc. The adductor muscle, a catch muscle, has been a favourite with muscle physiologists and biochemists as well as with gourmets. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Pecten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1919)
"A census of the entire fauna shows about 15% extinct, and 85% living. The character is decidedly northern, with many Puget Sound types such as Pecten ..."

2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1919)
"A census of the entire fauna shows about 15% extinct, and 85% living. The character is decidedly northern, with many Puget Sound types such as Pecten ..."

3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"335) Two basal tufts of tube within pecten janitor Theobald (p. 260) 7. ... 439) Pecten with two detached teeth covering the two basal tufts ..."

4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1900)
"The genus Chlamys of Bolten included a large majority of the species included in the genus Pecten by Lamarck and most of the conservative writers. ..."

5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"He bad in a previous number of his Genera stated his certainty that Lima is attached by a byssus, but, as far as he could ascertain, Pecten i» nit. ..."

6. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Asiatic Society of Bengal (1832)
"Pecten with 16 r., 15 /. teeth ; eyes 8; colour the same aa above ; a knob on the left plate ; length marly 1$ in*. / No. 5, which is not so much as half ..."

7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"He calls it " pecten manuale," to distinguish it from an instrument used for the ... The pecten was an instrument that cut off the ears of corn in the same ..."

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