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ensiform, a. and n. Biol.|ˈɛnsɪfɔːm|
[f. L. ensi-s sword: see -form.]
A. adj. Sword-shaped. (Often said of leaves.) ensiform cartilage, a cartilage appended to the sternum or breast-bone.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., Belowe in the furcule is an addycyon cartylagynous called Ency forme. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xiv. 155 Linnaeus calls them Ensiform or sword-shaped. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1828) II. xxiii. 324 Ensiform antennæ. 1845Lindley Sch. Bot. viii. (1858) 151 Leaves ensiform, with parallel veins. 1872Mivart Elem. Anat. 300 The diaphragm is attached to the ensiform cartilage and several ribs.
B. n. = ensiform cartilage.
1907Practitioner Oct. 467 Even when it travels directly downwards, in the same line as the pulmonary murmur, it [sc. an aortic murmur] travels much further, and is usually clearly audible at the ensiform. |