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theca

NOUN
  1. outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects
  2. a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule

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  • Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
  • Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing
  • He'd what they call hypothecated every stitch, and we couldn't even tetch the money in the till -- no, sir! The Mission of Janice Day
  • The Servian action is that by which a landlord sues for his tenant's property, over which he has a right in the nature of mortgage as security for his rent; the quasi-Servian is a similar remedy, open to every pledgee or hypothecary creditor. The Institutes of Justinian
  • Referral for intrathecal administration is useful in rare instances, such as when pain is intractable to standard treatment.
  • The artistic spirit shown in the whole plan and decoration of the new pinacotheca is worthy of admiration. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter. 
  • The contents of both syringes were injected intrathecally without being checked.
  • Landscape, on the other hand, illustrated nothing, represented no important event deserving of record, and was thus totally without significance in a Grecian temple or pinacotheca. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
  • Administration of an intrathecal opioid injection before continuous epidural infusion is known as combined spinal epidural analgesia, or the walking epidural.
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