See Also: abdominocystic(medicine)

ordnance (iou) and abdominocystic (medicine)


ordnance (iou)



ordnance noun. LME.
[Contr. of Old French ordenance, ORDINANCE.]
Military stores or supplies; missiles discharged in war; artillery. LME.
a. Engines for discharging missiles; = ARTILLERY 2. LME.
Antique As pieces of ordnance they were formidable weapons.
b. The artillery as a branch of the army. M17-L18.
A branch of the government service concerned esp. with the supply of military stores and materials. L15.
Board of Ordnance Hist. a board (dissolved in 1855) which managed all affairs relating to the artillery and engineers of the army.
Comb.: ordnance datum the datum-line or mean sea level to which all heights are referred in the Ordnance Survey; ordnance map: produced by the Ordnance Survey; Ordnance Survey (a formal body set up to conduct) an official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, producing detailed maps of the whole country.

abdominocystic (medicine)


abdominocystic


Synonym: abdominovesical.

Origin: abdomino-+ G. Kystis, bladder