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tauroboly (iou) and transverse wave (medicine)


tauroboly (iou)



tauroboly noun. . L15.
[Latin taurobolium from Greek taurobolos, from tauros bull + stem of bole a cast, stroke, wound.]
Greek Antiquities. The killing of a bull or bulls; spec. a sacrifice of a bull including a ritual bath in bulls' blood, in honour of the fertility and Nature goddess Cybele; a representation of this.

transverse wave (medicine)


transverse wave
<radiobiology> Waves in which the direction of the oscillation is perpendicular (transverse) to the direction of the wave propagation.

Examples include plucked strings and electromagnetic waves in free space or air.