Definitions for ramus

ramus ra·mus

Spelling: [rey-muh s]
IPA: /ˈreɪ məs/

Ramus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 77 anagrams from letters in ramus (amrsu).

Definitions for ramus

noun

  1. a branch, as of a plant, vein, bone, etc.

Origin of ramus

1795-1805; Latin rāmus branch, twig, bough; akin to rādīx root1 (see radix)

Examples for ramus

The Logic of ramus in 1555 is cited as the first departure from this rule.

This ridge and fossa are on the lateral surface of the ramus.

The more primitive forms have branchial respiratory processes developed on a ramus of each of the post-oral appendages.

One ramus (the endopodite) alone developed—the original axis or corm serving as its basal joint with or without gnathobase.

A second ramus, the “exopodite,” often is also retained in the form of a palp or feeler.

The French rame, an oar, is remus, but that modified by an unconscious recollection of ramus.

Disarticulation of the ramus without opening into the cavity of the Mouth.

This nerve is the portio major or superficialis of the nerve usually known as the ramus ophthalmicus superficialis in the adult.

ramus, antagonist of the philosophy of Aristotle, was included in the massacre of St. Bartholomew.

The coronoid process in Thrinaxodon sweeps upward posterodorsally at an angle oblique to the long axis of the ramus.

Word Value for ramus
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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