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free border of ovary(medicine)
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figure of speech (sh) and free border (medicine)


figure of speech (sh)




Form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect, often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.

An integral part of language, figures of speech are found in oral literatures as well as in polished poetry and prose and in everyday speech. Common figures of speech include simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, irony, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and puns.


free border (medicine)


free border


Unattached edge of a sturcture, often opposite the attached edge.

See: free border of nail, free border of ovary.

Synonym: margo liber, free margin.