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νωτιαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νωτιαῖος νωτιαῖη νωτιαῖον

Structure: νωτιαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nw=ton

Sense

  1. of the back or spine, spinal

Examples

  • Ἀλκμαίων ἐγκεφάλου μέροσ Πλάτων μυελοῦ τοῦ νωτιαίου ἀπόρροιαν. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 2:2)
  • ἢν μὲν οὖν τῆσ κεφαλῆσ κάτω πάθῃ τισ ἀρχὴ, ὁκοῖόν τι τοῦ νωτιαίου μυελοῦ ἡ μῆνιγξ, τὰ ὁμώνυμα καὶ ξυναφέα παραλύεται, δεξιὰ ἐπὶ δεξιοῖσι, καὶ ἐπ’ ἀριστεροῖσι λαιά. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 106)
  • Σπόνδυλοι δὲ ἔσωθεν ἄρτιοι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ἔξωθεν χόνδρων νεύρῳ συνεχόμενοι‧ ἡ δὲ ξυνάρθρωσισ αὐτῶν, ἐν τῷ ὄπισθεν τοῦ νωτιαίου‧ ὄπισθεν δὲ ἔχουσιν ἔκφυσιν ὀξείην, ἔχουσαν ἐπίφυσιν χονδρώδεα, ἔνθεν νεύρων ἀπόφυσισ καταφερὴσ, ὥσπερ καὶ οἱ μύεσ παραπεφύκασιν ἀπὸ αὐχένοσ ἐσ ὀσφὺν, πληρεῦντεσ δὲ πλευρέων καὶ ἀκάνθησ τὸ μέσον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., MOXLIKOS., 1.5)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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