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Oblique head (medicine) and exorbitant (oh)


Oblique head (medicine)


oblique head
Head of origin which is diagonally situated. Nomina Anatomica lists oblique heads (caput obliquum...) of the following: 1) adductor hallucis muscle (... Musculi adductoris hallucis ); 2) adductor pollicis muscle (... Musculi adductoris pollicis ).

Synonym: caput obliquum.


exorbitant (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: Late Latin, present participle of exorbitare 'to leave the track', from Latin orbita 'track']
an exorbitant price, amount of money etc is much higher than it should be
-synonym astronomical astronomical
exorbitant rent/prices etc
::exorbitant rates of interest
-- exorbitantly adv