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asaphus (medicine)


asaphus
<paleontology> A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Indistinct, uncertain.

Source: Websters Dictionary


death's-head (medicine)


death's-head


A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death. "I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth.

<zoology> " (Shak) Death's-head moth, a very large European moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax.

Synonym: death's-head sphinx.

Source: Websters Dictionary