Clavus is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 92 anagrams from letters in clavus (aclsuv).
1800-10; Latin: literally, nail; akin to claudere to close
On his later map clavus has made up for the want of names in an astonishing way.
Claval suture: Hemiptera; at the base of hemelytra, separating the clavus.
Some of the worst cases of clavus, probably, that have ever been seen were developed in the old days of phlebotomy.
It is clavus when there is a strong pulsation, conveying the sensation of a nail piercing the part.
They appear to be the origin of the “clavus” or nail-headed pattern woven into silks in the Palace of the Cæsars.
I think this is attributing to clavus rather too much original thought, of which his maps and text do not otherwise give evidence.
His togas 224 were neither scanty nor full; and the clavus was neither remarkably broad or narrow.
In mediæval times the cross in a circle was sometimes called the “clavus” .
The adjective hystericus is an improper and inadequate definition of the circumstances under which clavus arises.
The figures of D. clavus by Albertini and Schweinitz are excellent, as also the description.