Definition of Plicature

1. n. A fold; a doubling; a plication.

Definition of Plicature

1. Noun. A fold; a doubling; a plication. ¹

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Definition of Plicature

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plicature

plicae palmatae
plicae recti
plicae transversales recti
plicae tubariae tubae uterinae
plicae tunicae mucosae vesicae felleae
plical
plicamycin
plicas
plicate
plicated
plicately
plicates
plicating
plication
plications
plicature (current term)
plicatures
plicidentine
plicidentines
plicotomy
plie
plied
plier
pliers
plies
pliest
plieth
plight
plighted
plighter

Literary usage of Plicature

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

1. Surgical Operations: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Friedrich Pels-Leusder (1912)
"plicature Method, Delorme, Rehn, Bier (Figs. 579 and 580).- The mucous cover of the outer prolapsed cylinder is incised all around in aal at the limit ..."

2. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1903)
"It follows that our hypothesis, that the first gathering of Ф was a quaternion, and that its first plicature contained the missing parts of A, ..."

3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"The plicature of the leaves may be ... but not generally in G. fluitans, whilst in G. pedicellata and G. plicata I have found the plicature pretty constant. ..."

4. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"The plicature of the leaves may be found in all ... whilst in G. pedicellata and G. plicata I have found the plicature pretty constant. ..."

5. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"The plicature and the groove produced by it extend over the proximal half of the hind margin of the wing, and terminated distally at the place where the ..."

6. Surgical Operations: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Friedrich Pels-Leusder (1912)
"plicature Method, Delorme, Rehn, Bier (Figs. 579 and 580).- The mucous cover of the outer prolapsed cylinder is incised all around in aal at the limit ..."

7. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1903)
"It follows that our hypothesis, that the first gathering of Ф was a quaternion, and that its first plicature contained the missing parts of A, ..."

8. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1850)
"The plicature of the leaves may be ... but not generally in G. fluitans, whilst in G. pedicellata and G. plicata I have found the plicature pretty constant. ..."

9. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"The plicature of the leaves may be found in all ... whilst in G. pedicellata and G. plicata I have found the plicature pretty constant. ..."

10. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"The plicature and the groove produced by it extend over the proximal half of the hind margin of the wing, and terminated distally at the place where the ..."

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