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nobly (iou) and intercapital ligament (medicine)


nobly (iou)



nobly adverb. ME.
[from NOBLE adjective + -LY2.]
In a noble manner.
J. Ruskin Thinking it better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. M. McLuhan It is dark stained solid one inch oak and will age nobly. Day Lewis There is a photograph of me sitting beside a nobly handsome fisherman. A. Livingstone Insistence on the obligation to face life nobly and without lies. Independent Flu sufferers who nobly insist on struggling on rather than..going to bed.

intercapital ligament (medicine)


intercapital ligament -->
ligamentum intercapitale


A part of the ligamentum capitis costae intra-articulare; which connects the heads of opposite ribs by passing over the intervertebral fibrocartilage, and thus holds the ribs in their articular sockets; not present in man but well developed in the dog and cat.

Synonym: intercapital ligament.