raphe
See also: raphé
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from New Latin raphē, from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhăphḗ, “seam; suture”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.fi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪfi
Noun
editraphe (plural raphae or raphes)
- (anatomy) A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.
- 2004, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, V. Sivanesaratnam, Pratap Kumar, Alokendu Chatterjee, Essential of Obstetrics[1], page 28:
- They are inserted into the midline raphae or the anococcygeal raphae and the coccyx.
- 2005, Robert H. Anderson, Marco Pozzi, Suzie Hutchinson, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome[2], page 29:
- It shows three symmetrical raphes (asterisk) radiating from the centre of the aortic root, but in fetuses there is often asymmetry between the raphes with the one between the left and noncoronary sinuses being larger than the others (red asterisk in Figure 2.14b).
- The connecting ridge between the two halves of the medulla oblongata or the tegmentum of the midbrain.
- (botany) The part of the stalk of an anatropous ovary that is united in growth to the outside covering and forms a ridge along the body of the ovule.
- 2003, Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr., Charles R. Gunn, Anna L. Weitzman, Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the Subfamily Faboideae (Fabaceae)[3], page 24:
- The vast majority of the raphes do not bifurcate (123 genera), but the raphes of 7 genera do.
- (botany) A longitudinal median groove in the valve of many diatoms.
- 2007, Andrew M. Smith, James A. Callow, Biological Adhesives[4], page 87:
- The invariant occurrence of adhesive EPS at both the driving and the non-driving raphes supports a model for constitutive, rather than induced, secretion of the raphe adhesive.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editTranslations
References
edit- “raphe”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “raphe”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhăphḗ, “seam; suture”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.fe/, [ˈräːfe]
Noun
editraphē f (genitive raphēs); first declension (New Latin)
Inflection
editFirst-declension noun (Greek-type).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | raphē | raphae |
genitive | raphēs | raphārum |
dative | raphae | raphīs |
accusative | raphēn | raphās |
ablative | raphē | raphīs |
vocative | raphē | raphae |
Descendants
editCategories:
- English terms borrowed from New Latin
- English terms derived from New Latin
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/eɪfi
- Rhymes:English/eɪfi/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Anatomy
- English terms with quotations
- en:Botany
- en:Plant anatomy
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation only
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- New Latin
- la:Anatomy
- la:Botany