| longevity | Lifespan. (With increasing longevity, women will soon be postmenopausal for one third of their lives). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| longhorn | <zoology> A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long-horned. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longicorn | <zoology> Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. One of the Longicornia. Origin: L. Longus long + cornu horn: cf. F. Longicorne. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longicornia | <zoology> A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle. Origin: NL, fr. L. Longus long + cornu horn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longipalp | <zoology> One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi. Origin: F. Longipalpe, fr. L. Longus long + F. Palpe a feeler, a palp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longipennate | <zoology> Having long wings, or quills. Origin: L. Longus long + E. Pennate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longipennes | <ornithology> A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc. Origin: NL, from L. Longus long + penna wing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longipennine | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longiroster | Origin: L. Longus long + rostrum beak: cf. F. Longirostre. <zoology> One of the Longirostres. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longirostral | <zoology> Having a long bill; of or pertaining to the Longirostres. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longirostres | <ornithology> A group of birds characterised by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division. Origin: NL, fr. L. Longus long + rostrum beak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| longissimus capitis | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, from transverse processes of upper thoracic and transverse and articular processes of lower and middle cervical vertebrae; insertion, into mastoid process; action, keeps head erect, draws it backward or to one side; nerve supply, dorsal primary rami of cervical spinal nerves. Synonym: musculus longissimus capitis, musculus complexus minor, musculus trachelomastoideus, musculus transversalis capitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| longissimus cervicis | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, transverse processes of upper thoracic vertebrae; insertion, transverse processes of middle and upper cervical vertebrae; action, extends cervical vertebrae; nerve supply, dorsal primary rami of lower cervical and upper thoracic spinal nerves. Synonym: musculus longissimus cervicis, cervical longissimus muscle, musculus transversalis cervicis, musculus transversalis colli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| longissimus muscle | <anatomy> The intermediate division of the erector spinae muscle having three subdivisions: longissimus capitis muscle, longissimus cervicis muscle, and longissimus thoracis muscle. Synonym: musculus longissimus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| longissimus thoracis | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, with iliocostalis and from transverse processes of lower thoracic vertebrae; insertion, by lateral slips into most or all of the ribs between angles and tubercles and into tips of transverse processes of upper lumbar vertebrae, and by medial slips into accessory processes of upper lumbar and transverse processes of thoracic vertebrae; action, extends vertebral column; nerve supply, dorsal primary rami of thoracic and lumbar spinal nerves. Synonym: musculus longissimus thoracis, musculus longissimus dorsi, thoracic longissimus muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |