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animal (iou) and Middle lobe branch (medicine)


animal (iou)



animal noun & adjective. ME.
[As adjective from Old & mod. French, or Latin animalis having vital breath, (in medieval Latin) bestial, from ANIMA: see -AL1; partly attrib. use of the noun. As noun ult. from Latin animal for animale use as noun of neut. adjective.]
A. noun. A living organism having sensation and voluntary motion, without rigid cell walls, and dependent on organic substances for Food; spec. (a) an animal Other than a human being; (b) colloq. a land animal as opp. to a fish or a bird; (c) colloq. a four-legged animal as opp., e.g., to an insect or a worm. Also, a brutish person, a person regarded as without human attributes. ME.
no such animal colloq. no such person or thing. the animal the animal Nature in humans.
b. adjective.
Connected with sensation, innervation, or will. LME-L18.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of animals; not intellectual, moral, or spiritual. LME.
Embryology. Designating or pertaining to that pole of the ovum or embryo that contains the more rapidly dividing cells in the early stages of development. Opp. vegetal, vegetative. M19.
Special collocations: animal black, animal charcoal charcoal obtained from calcined bones. animal electricity: that generated within animals, e.g. as nerve impulses. animal flower a sea anemone. animal husbandry: see HUSBANDRY noun 2. animal kingdom animals collectively, as one of the three (or more) major divisions of the natural world. animal liberation the freeing of animals from exploitation by humans. animal magnetism Hist. mesmerism. animal oil: see OIL noun. animal rights the natural rights of animals to live a free life. animal spirits (a) the supposed principle of sensation and voluntary motion; (b) nerve, physical courage; (c) natural exuberance.
ani'malic adjective (rare) L17.
animally adverb E17.

Middle lobe branch (medicine)


middle lobe branch
Middle lobe branch of 1) the right pulmonary artery (arteriae pulmonalis dextrae ); 2) the right superior pulmonary vein (venae pulmonalis dextrae superior ).

Synonym: ramus lobi medii.