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vacuous (iou) and incisor canal (medicine)


vacuous (iou)



vacuous adjective. M17.
[from Latin vacuus empty, void: see -OUS.]
Empty of matter; containing nothing solid, tangible, or visible. M17.
b. Empty of air or gas; containing a vacuum. Now rare. M17.
Devoid of ideas; unintelligent; expressionless. M19.
P. L. Fermor Subsiding in a vacuous and contented trance. J. Heller Muriel's vacuous teen-age daughter finally terminated her conceited prattling.
Devoid of content or substance; meaningless. L19.
Times The original ideals have been..submerged beneath mountains of paper and vacuous talk. Look Now Success in doing something you don't enjoy is very vacuous.
Idle, indolent; not profitably occupied. L19.
vacuously adverb M19.
vacuousness noun M17.

incisor canal (medicine)


incisor canal


One of several bony canals leading from the floor of the nasal cavity into the incisive fossa on the palatal surface of the maxilla; they convey the nasopalatine nerves and branches of the greater palatine arteries which anastomose with the septal branch of the sphenopalatine artery.

Synonym: canalis incisivus.