See Also: throe(medicine)
throe(dictionary)

lamellibranch (iou) and throe (medicine)


lamellibranch (iou)



lamellibranch noun & adjective. M19.
[from mod. Latin Lamellibranchia (see below), from Latin LAMELLA + -I- + Greek bragkhia gills.]
Zoology.
A. noun. A bivalve mollusc (class Bivalvia, formerly Lamellibranchia); spec. any of those with lamellated gills, which comprise the subclass Lamellibranchia. M19.
b. adjective. Pertaining to or of the Nature of a lamellibranch. M19.
Also lamelli'branchiate adjective & noun M19.

throe (medicine)


throe


1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in Childbirth, or purturition. "Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes." (Milton)

2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Origin: OE. Rowe, rave, AS. Rea a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. Ra a throe, a pang, a longing; cf. AS. Reowian to suffer.

Source: Websters Dictionary