What is "cervix"

Chondrite \Chon"drite\, n. [Gr. ? a grain (of wheat or spelt), cartilage.] (Min.) A meteoric stone characterized by the presence of chondrules.

Grapplement \Grapple*ment\, n. A grappling; close fight or embrace. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Selden \Sel"den\ (s[e^]l"den), adv. Seldom. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Stool \Stool\, n. [AS. st[=o]l a seat; akin to OFries. & OS. st[=o]l, D. stoel, G. stuhl, OHG. stuol, Icel. st[=o]ll, Sw. & Dan. stol, Goth. st[=o]ls, Lith. stalas a table, Russ. stol'; from the root of E. stand. [root]163. See Stand, and cf. Fauteuil.]

1. A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

2. A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

3. A stool pigeon, or decoy bird. [U. S.]

4. (Naut.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
   --Totten.

5. A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
   --J. P. Peters.

6. A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

7. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. [Local, U.S.]

   Stool of a window, or Window stool (Arch.), the flat piece upon which the window shuts down, and which corresponds to the sill of a door; in the United States, the narrow shelf fitted on the inside against the actual sill upon which the sash descends. This is called a window seat when broad and low enough to be used as a seat.

   Stool of repentance, the cuttystool. [Scot.]

   Stool pigeon, a pigeon used as a decoy to draw others within a net; hence, a person used as a decoy for others.

Stool \Stool\, n. [L. stolo. See Stolon.] (Hort.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
--P. Henderson.

Stool \Stool\, v. i. (Agric.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
--R. D. Blackmore.

Stomapoda \Sto*map"o*da\, n. pl. [NL. See Stoma, and -poda.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea.

alligatorfish \alligatorfish\ n. 1. 1 small very elongate sea poachers.

Syn: Aspidophoroides monopterygius

Cervix \Cer"vix\, n.; pl. E. Cervixes, L. Cervices. [L.] (Anat.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird. [1913 Webster] ||

Old English stol "seat for one person," from Proto-Germanic *stolaz (cognates: Old Frisian stol, Old Norse stoll, Old High German stuol, German Stuhl "seat," Gothic stols "high seat, throne"), from PIE *sta-lo-, locative of root *sta- "to stand" (cognates: Lithuanian pa-stolas "stand," Old Church Slavonic stolu "stool;" see stet).\n

\nOriginally used of thrones (as in cynestol "royal seat, throne"); decline in sense began with adoption of chair (n.) from French, which relegated stool to small seats without arms or backs, then to "privy" (early 15c.) and thence to "bowel movement" (1530s).

early 15c., "ligament in the neck," from Latin cervix "the neck, nape of the neck," from PIE *kerw-o-, from root *ker- (1) (see horn (n.)). Applied to various neck-like structures of the body, especially that of the uterus (by 1702), where it is shortened from medical Latin cervix uteri (17c.). Sometimes in medical writing 18c.-19c. cervix of the uterus to distinguish it from the neck sense.

n. A meteorite consisting of rock containing chondrules

n. (context cryptozoology English) Any creature that may or may not exist. sightings of various cryptids have been reported, but their reality has not been proved.

vb. (misspelling of lying English)

n. (context obsolete English) A grapple; close fight or embrace.

Etymology 1 n. 1 A seat for one person without a back or armrest. 2 A footstool. 3 (label en chiefly medicine) feces; excrement. 4 (label en archaic) A decoy. 5 (label en now chiefly dialectal Scotland) A seat; a seat with a back; a chair. 6 (label en now chiefly dialectal Scotland literally and figuratively) throne. 7 (label en obsolete) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet. 8 (label en nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. 9 (label en US dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. Etymology 2

n. A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. vb. (context agriculture English) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

n. (context physics English) A quantum combination of two excitons

n. (plural of anadiplosis English)

a. Resembling or characteristic of a chandelier.

n. 1 (context anatomy English) The neck 2 The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. 3 The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagin

n. a rock of meteoric origin containing chondrules

1. v. lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

2. react to a decoy, of wildfowl

3. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: tiller]

4. have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

1. n. a simple seat without a back or arms

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, ordure, dejection]

3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne]

n. small very elongate sea poachers [syn: Aspidophoroides monopterygius]

n. receptors postulated to exist on nerve cell membranes of the sympathetic nervous system in order to explain the specificity of certain agents that affect only some sympathetic activities (such as vasoconstriction and relaxation of intestinal muscles and contraction of smooth muscles) [syn: alpha receptor, alpha-adrenoceptor]

1. n. the part of an organism that connects the head to the rest of the body; "he admired her long graceful neck" [syn: neck]

2. necklike opening to the uterus [syn: uterine cervix, cervix uteri]

3. [also: cervices (pl)]

Tatatila is a municipality located in the montane central zone in the State of Veracruz, about 26 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 82.25 km2. It is located at .

Chondrites are stony (non-metallic) meteorites that have not been modified due to melting or differentiation of the parent body. They are formed when various types of dust and small grains that were present in the early solar system accreted to form primitive asteroids. They are the most common type of meteorite that falls to Earth with estimates for the proportion of the total fall that they represent varying between 85.7% and 86.2%. Their study provides important clues for understanding the origin and age of the Solar System, the synthesis of organic compounds, the origin of life or the presence of water on Earth. One of their characteristics is the presence of chondrules, which are round grains formed by distinct minerals, that normally constitute between 20% and 80% of a chondrite by volume.

Chondrites can be differentiated from iron meteorites due to their low iron and nickel content. Other non-metallic meteorites, achondrites, which lack chondrules, were formed more recently.

There are currently over 27,000 chondrites in the world's collections. The largest individual stone ever recovered, weighing 1770 kg, was part of the Jilin meteorite shower of 1976. Chondrite falls range from single stones to extraordinary showers consisting of thousands of individual stones, as occurred in the Holbrook fall of 1912, where an estimated 14,000 stones rained down on northern Arizona.

Cascais is a coastal town and a municipality in Portugal, west of Lisbon. It is a cosmopolitan suburb of the Portuguese capital and one of the richest municipalities in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 206,479, in an area of 97.40 km². The former fishing village gained fame as a resort for Portugal's royal family in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Nowadays, it is a popular vacation spot for both Portuguese and foreign tourists.

It is located on the Estoril Coast (also known as the Portuguese Riviera), in the Greater Lisbon subregion. It has an airport for general aviation serving the Lisbon Region in Tires (S. Domingos de Rana), the Cascais Aerodrome, that also offers domestic scheduled flights by Aero VIP.

In cryptozoology, a pseudosciences, a cryptid (from the Greek κρύπτω, krypto, meaning "hide") is an animal whose existence cryptozoologists believe has been suggested but has not been discovered or documented by the scientific community or by direct evidence. The terminology has also entered modern lexicon outside of the pseudosciences.According to adherents, cryptids often appear in folklore and mythology, leading to stories and unfounded belief about their existence. Well-known examples include the Yeti in the Himalayas, the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, Sasquatch in North America, the Jersey Devil in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, the Mothman in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and the Chupacabra in Latin America.

Nouilhan is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France.

Mutatocoptops is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:

• Mutatocoptops alboapicalis Pic, 1925
• Mutatocoptops anancyloides (Schwarzer, 1925)
• Mutatocoptops annulicornis (Heller, 1926)
• Mutatocoptops bituberosa (Pascoe, 1866)
• Mutatocoptops borneensis Breuning, 1968
• Mutatocoptops cambodgensis Breuning, 1974
• Mutatocoptops celebensis Breuning, 1964
• Mutatocoptops diversa (Pascoe, 1865)
• Mutatocoptops malaisiana Breuning, 1973
• Mutatocoptops similis Breuning, 1935
• Mutatocoptops tonkinea Pic, 1925

The Roggalspitze is a peak, , in the Lechquellen Mountains, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is considered one of the most attractive climbing peaks in the range. The name of the mountain is derived from the Romansh word rocca, which means "rock" or "crag".

Tetyana or Tetiana is the Ukrainian variation on the female Slavic name Tatiana.

Selden may refer to:

Selden is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Anjelica Selden, an American softballer
• Armistead I. Selden
• Brian Selden, winner of the 1998 Magic: The Gathering World Championship
• Catherine Selden, Gothic novelist of the early 19th century
• David Selden
• Dudley Selden, member of U.S. House of Representatives from New York
• George Selden (author)
• George B. Selden (1846–1922), American inventor
• Henry R. Selden (1805–1885), New York Lt. Gov. 1857-1858
• John Selden (1584–1654), English jurist and scholar
• Samuel L. Selden (1800-1876), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1862
• William Selden (1831-1850), U.S. Treasurer, who served under six presidents

KPOY may refer to:

• KPOY (FM), a defunct radio station (90.3 FM) formerly licensed to serve Fraser, Colorado, United States
• KQNG-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Lihue, Hawaii, United States, which held the call sign KPOY from January 1980 to October 1982
• The kenpom Player of the Year award, introduced in 2010 by Ken Pomeroy's kenpom.com honoring the top player in NCAA Division I men's college basketball
• Powell Municipal Airport in Powell, Wyoming (ICAO code KPOY)

KRXO (1270 AM) is a sports talk oriented radio station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. KRXO is owned by Ty and Tony Tyler, through licensee Tyler Media, LLC. KRXO (AM) is also broadcast on FM translator K300CY at 107.9 FM.

KRXO transmits with a directional signal during day and night. The day signal is maximized to send a 13,000 watt ERP lobe up and down I-44. The day and night signal has been designed to provide the best possible coverage for Tulsa and the surrounding population centers.

The station originated as KWPR in Claremore, Oklahoma in 1958. The call letters were a tribute to famous Oklahoman Will Rogers - William Penn Rogers.

On September 16, 2015, the then-KTUZ dropped the Spanish and picked up the sports talk format from sister station KRXO-FM in Oklahoma City. The station changed its call sign to KRXO on October 5, 2015.

KRXO may refer to:

• KRXO (AM), a radio station (1270 AM) licensed to serve Claremore, Oklahoma, United States
• KRXO-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to serve Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Angelou was an English folk rock band formed in 1996 by singer-songwriter Holly Lerski with guitarist Jo Baker, the duo taking the band's name from the author Maya Angelou.

Angelou debuted on Boo Hewerdine's independent record label Haven Records in 1997 with the "Hallelujah" EP. Joined by Phil Di Palma and Chris Evans, they followed this up with two critically acclaimed albums, Automiracles (1998) and While You Were Sleeping (2000).

Angelou toured Spain extensively in 2001, promoting their Spanish 'best of' release, Midnight Witcheries, with new members Cath Evans and Ann Richardson. The band returned a second time for the Benicassim festival 2001 tour, promoting their "Summertime" EP.

After their return to England they signed to Sanctuary Records and recorded their third album, Life Is Beautiful, releasing it under Holly Lerski's name. The album finally broke Lerski and her band into the mainstream through heavy radio support for their two singles. Lerski left Sanctuary Records in 2005 through lack of support for the record. The company dissolved soon after, to eventually be bought out by the Universal Music Group.

Ecublens may refer to:

• Écublens, Vaud, a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland
• Écublens, Fribourg, a municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

1. redirect Écublens, Fribourg

Bunites distigma is a species of beetle in the family Dytiscidae, the only species in the genus Bunites.

Heden is a ballcourt and public space and square in the centre of Gothenburg, Sweden. Football matches are played there in the run-up to the final of the Gothia Cup. The final is played at Ullevi. Also the largest handball tournament in the world is played there during the summer: Partille Cup, when Heden is transformed to a handball festival with over 50 playing fields and 15,000 players.

An artificial bandy ice has recently been established and GAIS play their home matches there.

Before its public use, Heden was a military ground where they used to drill soldiers (Excersisheden).

Stool may refer to:

• Stool (seat), a type of seat without back or arm rests
  • Bar stool
  • Footstool
• Stool (hieroglyph), an alphabetic uniliteral sign of ancient Egypt
• Feces
  • Human feces
  • Stool test
• A living stump of a tree, capable of producing sprouts or cuttings

A stool is one of the earliest forms of seat furniture. It bears many similarities to a chair. It consists of a single seat, for one person, without back or armrests (in early stools), on a base of either three or four legs. A stool is generally distinguished from chairs by their lack of arms and a back. Variants exist with one, two or five legs and these various stools are referred to by some people as "backless chairs". Some modern stools have backs.

In condensed matter physics, biexcitons are created from two free excitons.

The Merkys ( Miarkis) is a river in southern Lithuania and northern Belarus. It flows for through Belarus, along the Belarusian–Lithuanian border, and through Lithuania before joining the Neman River near Merkinė.

Merkys is mostly fed by underground streams and therefore is cooler during summers and has smaller fluctuations in water level than other rivers in Lithuania. Near Žagarinė ( before its mouth) the Merkys is connected with Lake Papys by a canal. The Vokė originates from this lake and consumes most of the Merkys' water. Before the canal average discharge of the Merkys is and below it only . At the end of the 19th century the drainage basin of the Merkys grew by some as its tributary Ūla River overtook some of the Kotra's watershed area.

The Merkys is a popular destination among water tourism enthusiasts as part of it belongs to the Dzūkija National Park and it flows into the Neman near the historical site of Merkinė. Archaeological findings show that people inhabited the area as early as the Mesolithic period. The Merkys is known for its diverse fauna, being declared a reservoir for trout in 1974.

The Alligatorfish (Aspidophoroides monopterygius, also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1786. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, including western Greenland; Labrador, Canada; and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. It dwells at a depth range of 0-695 metres, most often around 60-150 m, and inhabits sand and mud bottoms mostly on the lower continental shelf all year. It prefers a temperature range of -1.07 to 2.52°C. Males can reach a maximum total length of 22 centimetres, but more commonly reach a TL of 14.2 cm.

The Alligatorfish is preyed on by the Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) and the Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis). Its own diet consists primarily of benthic crustaceans and bottom fauna.

KICD may refer to:

• KICD (AM), a radio station (1240 AM) licensed to Spencer, Iowa, United States
• KICD-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Spencer, Iowa, United States

KICD (1240 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Spencer, Iowa. The station broadcasts a talk radio format. KICD is owned by Saga Communications and licensed to Saga Communications of Iowa, LLC.

The studio, transmitter and broadcast tower are located on the north side of Spencer along U.S. Route 71. According to the Antenna Structure Registration database, the tower is tall. The tower is also used by its sister station KICD-FM.

Zédé-Dianhoun is a village in central Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Béoumi, Béoumi Department, Gbêkê Region, Vallée du Bandama District.

Zédé-Dianhoun was a commune until March 2012, when it became one of 1126 communes nationwide that were abolished.

Ali-Royal (9 February 1993 – January 2001) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. After winning one race as a two-year-old in 1995 he showed consistently good form as a three-year-old, winning the King Charles II Stakes and the Ben Marshall Stakes, but appeared to be just below top class. He reached his peak as a four-year-old in 1997, winning the Earl of Sefton Stakes on his seasonal debut and recording his biggest win in the Sussex Stakes on his final racecourse appearance. He retired with a record of seven wins and six places from sixteen starts. He stood as a breeding stallion in Ireland and Australia before dying in 2001 at the age of eight.

Shanta is a character in the Ramayana. She was the daughter of Dasharatha and Kausalya, elder sister of Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana and Shatrughna and played crucial role in their birth, adopted by the couple Rompad and Vershini. Shanta was married to Rishyasringa, son of the legendary Indian Hindu saint Vibhandaka. The descendants of Shanta and Rishyasringa are Sengar Rajputs who are called the only Rishivanshi rajputs.

She is not mentioned in the original Valmiki Ramayana but originates in the followed up regional tellings of the great epic.

The Eyemo is a 35 mm motion picture film camera which was manufactured by the Bell & Howell Co. of Chicago.

Popplewell is a surname. People with this surname include:

• Andrew Popplewell (born 1959), judge of the High Court of England and Wales
• Anna Popplewell (born 1988), English actress
• Cicely M. Popplewell Early computer programmer in Manchester who worked with Alan Turing
• Dan Popplewell, English musician, co-founder of Ooberman
• Don Popplewell (born c. 1949), American football player
• Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell (1899–1977), British politician
• Fred Popplewell, Australian golfer and winner of the Australian Open
• Freddie Popplewell (born 1994), English film actor
• Jack Popplewell (1911–1996), English writer and playwright
• Lulu Popplewell (born 1991) English actress
• Martin Popplewell, British newsreader
• Nick Popplewell (born 1964), Irish rugby union player
• Nigel Popplewell (born 1957), English cricketer
• Sir Oliver Popplewell (born 1927), British judge
• Paul Popplewell (born 1977), English actor
• Richard Popplewell (born 1935), English organist and composer

Goch (archaic spelling: Gog, Dutch: Gogh) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated close to the border with the Netherlands, approx. south of Kleve, and southeast of Nijmegen. Other places in Goch are Asperden and Kessel.

Biała-Kopiec is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Biała, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately west of Biała, north-west of Wieluń, and south-west of the regional capital Łódź.

The cervix or cervix uteri () is the lower part of the uterus in the human female reproductive system. In a non-pregnant woman, the cervix is usually 2 to 3 cm long (~1 inch) and roughly cylindrical in shape. The narrow, central cervical canal runs along its entire length, connecting the uterine cavity and the lumen of the vagina. The opening into the uterus is called the internal os, and the opening into the vagina is called the external os. The lower part of the cervix, known as the vaginal portion of the cervix (or ectocervix), bulges into the top of the vagina. The cervix has been documented anatomically since at least the time of Hippocrates, over 2,000 years ago.

The cervical canal is a passage through which sperm must travel to fertilize an egg cell after sexual intercourse. Several methods of contraception, including cervical caps and cervical diaphragms aim to block or prevent the passage of sperm through the cervical canal. Cervical mucus is used in several methods of fertility awareness, such as the Creighton model and Billings method, due to its changes in consistency throughout the menstrual period. During vaginal childbirth, the cervix must flatten and dilate to allow the fetus to progress along the birth canal. Midwives and doctors use the extent of the dilation of the cervix to assist decision-making during childbirth.

The cervical canal is lined with a single layer of column-shaped cells, while the ectocervix is covered with multiple layers of cells topped with flat cells. The two types of epithelia meet the squamocolumnar junction. Infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause changes in the epithelium, which can lead to cancer of the cervix. Cervical cytology tests can often detect cervical cancer and its precursors, and enable early successful treatment. Ways to avoid HPV include avoiding sex, using condoms, and HPV vaccination. HPV vaccines, developed in the early 21st century, reduce the risk of cervical cancer by preventing infections from the main cancer-causing strains of HPV.

The cervix in insects is a membrane that separates the head from the thorax and is composed of structures from both of these. A pair of lateral cervical sclerites are embedded in the cervix.

A cervix or collum is a neck, that is, a narrowed region of an object (such as a body or a body part). In anatomy, various body parts are called necks, with the neck (of the body) and the neck of the uterus (the uterine cervix) being major examples. A list of examples includes:

• Neck, the narrowed region of the body between the torso and the head
• Uterine cervix, usually just called the cervix when the context is implicit
• Cervix vesicae urinariae, the neck of the urinary bladder
• Cervix cornus dorsalis medullae spinalis or cervix cornus posterioris medullae spinalis, the neck of the posterior grey column (the posterior horn of the spinal cord)
• Cervix dentis, the neck of a tooth (a slightly narrowed area where the crown meets the root, such as on a molar tooth)