Meanings
plural podexes · plural podices
- rarebiologyThe rear end of any animal.
Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.
1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente (page 229)
Origin
- Latinpōdex
- Latinpōdex
- Englishpodex
Borrowed from Latin pōdex.
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