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thirteen(dictionary)
Thirteen Articles of Faith(encyclopedia)
jejunal(dictionary)
jejunal(medicine)
jejunal arteries(medicine)
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jejunal arteries (medicine) and thirteen (iou)


jejunal arteries (medicine)


jejunal arteries
Origin, superior mesenteric; distribution, jejunum; anastomoses, by a series of arches with each Other and with ileal arteries.

Synonym: arteriae jejunales.


thirteen (iou)



thirteen adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).
[Old English Treotiene = Old Saxon Triutein (Dutch dertien), Old High German drizehan (German dreizehn), Old Norse Trettan: see THREE, -TEEN.]
A. adjective.
One more than twelve (a cardinal numeral represented by 13 in Arabic numerals, xiii, XIII in roman). OE.
= THIRTEENTH adjective. OE-E19.
b. noun.
Thirteen persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, chances (in giving odds), minutes, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. OE.
old Thirteen: see OLD adjective.
S. Gray At thirteen I was embarrassed to wear a swimming costume.
One more than twelve as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (13 in Arabic numerals, xiii, XIII in roman). LME.
J. Woodforde The unlucky Number of thirteen sat down to dinner.
The thirteenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated thirteen, (usu. number thirteen, or with specification, as book thirteen, chapter thirteen, etc.); a size etc. denoted by thirteen, a garment etc. of such a size (also size thirteen). E16.
A set of thirteen; a thing having a set of thirteen as an essential or distinguishing feature. Formerly also spec. (Anglo-Irish), a silver shilling, from its being worth thirteen pence of Irish copper currency. E18.
Comb.: Forming compound numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 513 (read five hundred and thirteen, US also five hundred thirteen) etc. In dates used for one thousand three hundred, as 1340 (read thirteen forty), thirteen-eighties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having thirteen s', as thirteen-tonner etc. Special combs., as thirteen-year cicada, thirteen-year locust a periodical cicada of the race in the southern US whose nymphs emerge in a 13-year cycle (cf. SEVENTEEN-year cicada).
? That the number thirteen is unlucky is a widespread superstition.
thirteener noun (a) Anglo-Irish (now rare) a silver shilling (see THIRTEEN noun 4); (b) (Bridge etc.) the last unplayed card in a suit, after the Other twelve have been played in tricks: M18.