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Gillette's suspensory ligament (medicine) and thermite (iou)


Gillette's suspensory ligament (medicine)


Gillette's suspensory ligament -->
cricoesophageal tendon
Longitudinal fibre of the oesophagus that attaches to the posterior aspect of the cricoid cartilage of the larynx.

Synonym: tendo cricoesophageus, Gillette's suspensory ligament, suspensory ligament of oesophagus.


thermite (iou)



thermite noun. E20.
[from THERM(O- + -ITE1.]
A mixture of finely divided aluminium with a metal oxide, esp. an iron oxide, which produces a very high temperature (c 3000C) when ignited.
Comb.: thermite process (a) the reduction of finely divided oxides of iron or Other metals by an exothermic reaction with finely divided aluminium; (b) thermite welding; thermite welding fusion welding in which the heat and the weld metal are produced by the thermite process.