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Record 1 2017-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wheels and Tires (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
DEF

Layer of rubber-coated parallel cords.

OBS

ply: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Roues et pneus (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
DEF

Nappe constituée de câblés caoutchoutés disposés parallèlement les uns aux autres.

OBS

pli : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
DEF

White parallel lines appearing at arteriovenous crossings and encasing the arteriole, giving rise to the appearance of a white, fibrous-looking cord. Seen in arteriolar sclerosis but also occurring in vessels after a vasculitis subsides, the arteries appearing as white cords long after an arterial occlusion.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
DEF

Double ligne blanche bordant les artères. Ces engainements sont plus ou moins étendus, plus ou moins nombreux, souvent localisés à certains segments artériels. Ils s'observent dans la périartérite et préludent à une oblitération progressive.

Spanish

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Record 3 2004-11-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trimming and Embroidery
DEF

A pendent ornament used on clothing, curtains, and other articles that is made by laying parallel a bunch of cords or threads of even length and fastening the bunch at one end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Passementerie et broderie
DEF

Ouvrage de passementerie de forme ovoïde, souvent horné de houppes ou de franges.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Pasamanería y bordado
DEF

Adorno de pasamanería, que consiste en una piececita de madera, [...], cubierta de hilo de seda o de lana.

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Record 4 2003-06-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

(...) the process of "torsion" involves a rotation of the mantle [of a young prosobranch gastropod], and [the] juvenile shell, with its enclosed viscera, through an angle of 180 degrees in relation to the velum(from which the head later develops) and the foot. As a result the mantle cavity comes to occupy an anterodorsal position, while the coiling of the shell assumes the endogastric direction typical of the adult gastropod. Effects of this torsion on the cells from which various organs of the adult animal later arise are far-reaching. Thus, when they develop, the nerve cords connecting the cerebral and pleural to the visceral ganglia are found to be crossed(...) rather like a figure 8, instead of being parallel. The gut has been twisted into a loop. It is, moreover obvious that the positions of the left and right ctenidia, osphradia, hypobranchial glands, heart auricles, and kidneys of the ancestral untorqued form become transposed as the result of torsion, so that when, as in most prosobranchs, only one of each of these organs remains, this, although now on the 6ft-hand side, represents the original right-hand organ.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

[...] à la suite de [la] flexure [anopédieuse] amenant le sac viscéral vers l'avant, et avec lui le manteau qui l'enveloppe ainsi que la cavité palléale qui les sépare et contient les branchies, les Gastéropodes subissent une "torsion" de 180 degrés amenant le complexe palléal en position antéro-latérale, et se continuant par la progressive torsion spirale des viscères, du muscle columellaire et de la coquille [...]. Cette torsion non seulement affecte le sac viscéral et la coquille qui moule le manteau en leur imprimant une forme hélicoïdale, mais entraîne aussi le "chiasma" du système nerveux dont les ganglions, initialement placés à droite, vont prendre une position topographique gauche et "vice versa". Et surtout, la principale conséquence de la torsion hélicoïdale est d'avoir transformé les Gastéropodes en animaux dissymétriques: l'étude des parties molles prouve que les organes pairs du côté droit (côté gauche originel) sont plus petits que ceux du côté gauche, et peuvent même s'atrophier et disparaître.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Paleontología
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Record 5 2000-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Footwear and Shoe Repair
DEF

A dangling ornament made by laying parallel a bunch of cords or treads of even length and fastening them at one end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chaussures et cordonnerie
DEF

Chacune des petites pendeloques groupées en franges, servant d'ornement.

Spanish

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Record 6 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ropemaking
OBS

CiTC (Imports)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Corderie

Spanish

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