Usually means: Branching part of a bone.
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  1. ramus: Merriam-Webster
  2. ramus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ramus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ramus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ramus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ramu's, Ramus, ramus: Wordnik
  7. Ramus: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. ramus: Wiktionary
  9. ramus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ramus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ramus: Dictionary.com
  12. Ramus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ramus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ramus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ramus: Rhymezone
  16. Ramus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ramus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. ramus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. ramus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ramus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. ramus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. ramus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ramus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. ramus: Medical dictionary
  8. Ramus: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. RAMUS: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ramus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Ramus)

▸ noun:  A small spray or twig.
▸ noun:  (biology) A branching, as of nerves or blood vessels.
▸ noun:  (ornithology) The stem of a barb of a feather, from which the barbules extend.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
sprig, spray, rhamnus, bramble, twig, ramee, buckram, spring, tentwort, panicle, more...

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posterior, inferior, superior, more...

Phrases:
ascending ramus, mandibular ramus, Ramus communicans, inferior ramus, Petrus Ramus, more...

Adjectives:
mandibular, pubic, superior, outer, horizontal, posterior, inner, dorsal, inferior, anterior, left



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Similar:
sprig, spray, rhamnus, bramble, twig, ramee, buckram, spring, tentwort, panicle, more...

Types:
posterior, inferior, superior, more...

Phrases:
ascending ramus, mandibular ramus, Ramus communicans, inferior ramus, Petrus Ramus, anterior ramus, white ramus, ischiopubic ramus, ramus of the mandible, frame type of ramus endosteal implant, more...

Adjectives:
mandibular, pubic, superior, outer, horizontal, posterior, inner, dorsal, inferior, anterior, left



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