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Splenial
- - Designating the splenial bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.
Splenium
- - The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.
Splenius
- noun - either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck
Splenoid
- - Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.
Splicers
- noun - a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape
- a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice
- a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands
Splicing
- verb - a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice"
- join by interweaving strands; "Splice the wires"
- join the ends of; "splice film"
- join together so as to form new genetic combinations; "splice genes"
- perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"
Splining
- - Of or pertaining to a spline.
Splinted
- verb - support with a splint; "splint a broken finger"
Splinter
- noun - a small thin sharp bit or wood or glass or metal; "he got a splinter in his finger"; "it broke into slivers"
- break up into splinters or slivers; "The wood splintered"
- divide into slivers or splinters
- withdraw from an organization or communion; "After the break up of the Soviet Union, many republics broke away"