Definition of Plastrum

1. plastron [n -S] - See also: plastron

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plastrum

plastocyanin
plastocyanins
plastogamy
plastoglobule
plastoglobuli
plastography
plastome
plastoquinol-plastocyanin oxidoreductase
plastoquinone
plastoquinone-9
plastoquinones
plastral
plastre
plastron
plastrons
plastrum (current term)
plastrums
plasty
plat
plat du jour
platable
platan
platane
platanes
platanist
platanna
platannas
platans
platanus
platarsite

Literary usage of Plastrum

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

1. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... f.pl. mother-cloves, the immature fruit of the clove- tree Mutter-pech, «. meconium Mutter-pflaster, «. (schwarzes), Em- plastrum fuscum ..."

2. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"The ridges of the plastrum here described being thicker than the rest of the ... The legs, eight in number, are connected with the sides of the plastrum, ..."

3. Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester by Priory of St. Swithun, George William Kitchin, Winchester Cathedral (1892)
"... which is for em-plastrum ; Gr. ^я-Лао-т^о», a plaster, from the verb ... plastrum,—a plaster (see p. 237, n. 4). PLATEA,—a flat surface, plate. ..."

4. A German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied Sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"... f.pl. mother-cloves, the immature fruit of the clove- tree Mutter-pech, «. meconium Mutter-pflaster, «. (schwarzes), Em- plastrum fuscum ..."

5. On diseases of the skin: A System of Cutaneous Medicine by Erasmus Wilson (1868)
"The ridges of the plastrum here described being thicker than the rest of the ... The legs, eight in number, are connected with the sides of the plastrum, ..."

6. Compotus Rolls of the Obedientiaries of St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester by Priory of St. Swithun, George William Kitchin, Winchester Cathedral (1892)
"... which is for em-plastrum ; Gr. ^я-Лао-т^о», a plaster, from the verb ... plastrum,—a plaster (see p. 237, n. 4). PLATEA,—a flat surface, plate. ..."

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