Modiolus: alternatives and connections

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The stem; the central part, or longitudinal support, on which organs or parts are arranged; the central line of any body.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Of or pertaining to the two sides of a central area or organ, or of a central axis; as, bilateral symmetry in animals, where there is…

The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremiti…

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. Se…

(linguistics) any vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned halfway between a front vowel and a back vowel.; "In practice, unround…

Of or pertaining to the cochlea.

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air,…

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the…

The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear.

(biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism c…

Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with numerous globose white fragrant flowers…

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguis…

the central bank of those members of the European Union who share a common currency; "The European Central Bank is Europe's equivalent…