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isthmus 音标拼音: ['ɪsməs] n. 地峡,峡部 地峡,峡部 isthmus n 1: a relatively narrow strip of land ( with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas 2: a cord- like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure [ synonym: { isthmus}, { band}] Isthmus \ Isth" mus\ (?; 277), n.; pl. { Isthmuses}. [ L. isthmus, Gr. ' isqmo` s a neck, a neck of land between two seas, an isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the root of ' ie` nai to go; cf. Icel. ei[ eth] isthmus. See { Issue}.] ( Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Isthmus of the fauces}. ( Anat.) See { Fauces}. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " isthmus": abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, canal, cervix, channel, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, decrease, defile, diminuendo, hourglass, hourglass figure, knitting, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, narrows, neck, pass, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, strait, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, throat, wasp waist, wrinkling
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