| architectress | A female architect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| architectural accessibility | Designs for approaching areas inside or outside facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| architectural drawings | Drawings of architecture and architectural projects, whether the project was executed or not. (12 Dec 1998) |
| architecture | 1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; often called civil architecture. "Many other architectures besides Gothic." (Ruskin) 3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. "The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees." (Tyndall) "The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture." (Burnet) Military architecture, the art of fortifications. Naval architecture, the art of building ships. Origin: L. Architectura, fr. Architectus: cf. F. Architecture. See Architect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| architeuthis | <zoology> A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found especially. In the North Atlantic and about New Zealand. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Pref. +, a kind of squid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| architrave | The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, especially. In classical architecture. See Column. The group of moldings, or other architectural member, above and on both sides of a door or other opening, especially if square in form. Origin: F. Architrave, fr. It. Architrave; pref. Archi- + trave beam, L. Trabs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| archo- | 1. Variant of arch-. Origin: G. Arche, origin, beginning 2. Obsolete. The rectum. See: procto-, recto-. Origin: G. Archos, rectum (05 Mar 2000) |
| archonts | <zoology> The group including man alone. Origin: Gr, p. Pr. See Archon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| archwire | A device consisting of a wire conforming to the alveolar or dental arch, used as an anchorage in correcting irregularities in the position of the teeth. Synonym: arch wire. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arciform | Curved like a bow. (09 Oct 1997) |
| arciform arteries | arcuate arteries of kidney |
| arciform veins of kidney | Veins that parallel the arcuate arteries, receive blood from interlobular veins and straight venules, and terminate in interlobar veins. Synonym: venae arcuatae renis, arciform veins of kidney. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arcograph | An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph. Origin: L. Arcus (E. Arc) + -graph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| arcon articulator | An articulator with the equivalent condylar guides fixed to the upper member and the hinge axis to the lower member, an instrument that maintains a constant relationship between the occlusal plane and the arcon guides at any position of the upper member, thereby making possible more accurate reproductions of mandibular movements. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arctation | <medicine> Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation. Origin: L. Arctus shut in, narrow, p. P. Of arcere to shut in: cf. F. Arctation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |