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Helix

noun

(pl. L. helices, E. helixes)

A curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle. Synonym: spiral.

A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops. Synonyms: coil, spiral, volute, whorl.

Type genus of the family Helicidae. Synonym: genus Helix.

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"Helix" Quotes from Famous Books

... issue as most of the foregoing ones, though in some the results are not so bad as might be expected. A German female, thirty-six, while in the sixth month of pregnancy, fell and struck her abdomen on a tub. She was delivered of a normal living child, with the exception that the helix of the left ear was pushed anteriorly, and had, in its middle, a deep incision, which also traversed the antihelix and the tragus, and continued over the cheek toward the nose, where it terminated. The external auditory meatus ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

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... experiments 'on the induction of electric currents' by composing a helix of two insulated wires which were wound side by side round the same wooden cylinder. One of these wires he connected with a voltaic battery of ten cells, and the other with a sensitive galvanometer. When connection with the battery was made, and while the current flowed, no effect whatever was ...

— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall

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