In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
MYOTOME
Etymology
Noun
myotome (plural myotomes)
(biology) In vertebrate embryonic development, a group of tissues formed from somites that develop into the body wall muscle.
Synonyms
• myocomma
Source: Wiktionary
My"o*tome, n. Etym: [See Myotomy.] (Anat.) (a) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma. (b) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebræ; also, one of the protovertebræ themselves. (c) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SUBDUCTION
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