transversely

[ UK /tɹænsvˈɜːsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a transverse manner
    they were cut transversely
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  • -- (Fig. 140.) "Shell fusiform, ventricose; whirls compressed above, spirally and transversely striated; striae wrinkled and coarse at base; spire short and sub-cancellated, papillated; aperture semi-lunar; outer lip acute, smooth within; columella lip very thin, decumbent, almost obsolete, semi-callous, not distinguishable from the body-whirl, but by outline and color. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • Subcordate inequivalve ventricose; elongated and only slightly oblique; beaks very prominent and distant; ribs about twenty-five, crenulated, or transversely ridged; hinge area wide and marked by divergent striae or channels. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • The metathorax transversely and rather finely rugose, the truncation more strongly striated; the scutellum shining; the wings subhyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the tibiæ with scattered spines, the tarsi spinose. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • As discussed above, Carter retained Spirifer to include these species having a transversely subtrigonal to subsemicircular outline and alate, mucronate, or angular cardinal extremities in all growth stages.
  • -- As in many cases the entropium seems to depend partly on a too great laxity of the skin of the lid, combined occasionally with spasm of the orbicularis, the simplest and most natural plan of operation is (_a_) to remove (Fig.VII. _a_) an elliptical portion of skin, extending transversely along the whole length of the affected lid, including the fibres of the orbicularis lying below it, and then to unite the edges with several points of fine suture. (_b_) An improvement on this in obstinate cases is proposed by A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
  • The articular eminence of the glenoid fossa is rectangular and broad transversely.
  • they were cut transversely
  • Thorax: the posterior margin of the prothorax rounded; the mesothorax with a longitudinal fuscous stripe on each side, widest anteriorly; the metathorax truncate; above, transversely striate; the tibiæ and tarsi spinose; wings dark fuscous, with a pale semitransparent macula at the base of the second discoidal cell and a dark fuscous macula beyond; the insect entirely covered with a fine orange-red downy pile. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Between each leaflet there is a nectary gland on the leaf rhachis; in 1. edulis these are large (2 to 3 mm) and squashed transversely, an important character for identifying the species. Chapter 8
  • -- Diagram of a vertical section of both Carapace and Plastron of a Tortoise, made transversely to the long axis of the skeleton. c, vertebral centrum; ns, neural spine which expands above into a median dorsal scute; r, rib which forms one mass with a lateral scute and terminates at a marginal plate, ic, interclavicular scute; hp, hyo-sternal scute. The Common Frog
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