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n. - (biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal.

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  • From the lateral aspect of each colliculus a white band, termed the brachium, is prolonged upward and forward.
  • Hoc est mare magnum, de quo brachium saneti Georgij exit, quod in
  • The passage from Erasmus, "brachium habet ova serpentum," is plainly to be rendered "and with a string of serpents 'eggs on your arm."
  • P.S. -- I should be glad if any of the readers of "NOTES AND QUERIES" could explain to that Erasmus alludes, when he says, "Culmeis ornatus torquibus, brachium habet ova...
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