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Calcar   Listen
noun
Calcar  n.  (pl. calcaria)  
1.
(Bot.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
2.
(Zool.) A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.
3.
(Anat.)
(a)
A spur, or spurlike prominence.
(b)
A curved ridge in the floor of the leteral ventricle of the brain; the calcar avis, hippocampus minor, or ergot.






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... Owing possibly to the good fortune of his family, and to the income which he derived from his professorships, Andreas was able to secure for his work the aid of some of the best artists of the day. To Jean Calcar, one of the ablest of the pupils of Titian, are due the splendid anatomical plates which illustrate the "Corporis Humani Fabrica," and which are incomparably better than those of any work which preceded it. To him most likely is due also the woodcut which adorns the ...
— Fathers of Biology • Charles McRae



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