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adjective

Innominate adj.

Having no name; unnamed; as, an innominate person or place. (R.)

(Anat.) A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as, the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; the innominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava.

Innominate bone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvis in mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed of three bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in the adult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptiles and amphibians.

Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without a specific name.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Innominate" Quotes from Famous Books

... trachea passes down the neck, it gradually recedes from the surface, till at the level of the sternum it lies about an inch and a half from the skin. The thyreoidea ima artery—an inconstant branch of the anonyma (innominate) or of the aorta—runs in front of the trachea as far up as the thyreoid isthmus. The inferior thyreoid plexus of veins also lies in front of the trachea. In the superficial fascia, cross branches between the anterior jugular ...

— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... guerre [Fr.], nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy. V. misname, miscall, misterm^; nickname; assume a name. Adj. misnamed &c v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant [Fr.]; self called, self styled, self christened; so-called. nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged. ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... importance of weakening of the radial pulse as a sign in connection with a wound of the upper part of the chest on the left side. It is somewhat surprising that this sign was not marked in two cases (Nos. 13 and 14, p. 140) recorded below, in which the innominate and right carotid ...

— Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 • George Henry Makins

... proximal ligature, and is therefore restricted to aneurysms so situated as not to be amenable to other methods; for example, in aneurysm of the common carotid near its origin, the artery may be ligated near its bifurcation, or in aneurysm of the innominate artery, the carotid and subclavian arteries are tied at ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles