isthmus

4 definitions found

isthmus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Isthmus \Isth"mus\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Isthmuses. [L. isthmus,
     Gr. 'isqmo`s a neck, a neck of land between two seas, an
     isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the
     root of 'ie`nai to go; cf. Icel. ei[eth] isthmus. See
     Issue.] (Geog.)
     A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are
     connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland;
     as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.
        [1913 Webster]

isthmus - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  isthmus
      n 1: a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both
           sides) connecting two larger land areas
      2: a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an
         anatomical structure [syn: isthmus, band]

isthmus - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  ISTHMUS. A tongue or strip of land between two seas. Glos. on Law, 37, book 
  2, tit. 3, of the Dig. 
  
  

isthmus - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "isthmus":
     abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, canal, cervix,
     channel, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction,
     compression, compressure, concentration, condensation,
     consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction,
     contracture, curtailment, decrease, defile, diminuendo, hourglass,
     hourglass figure, knitting, narrow, narrow place, narrowing,
     narrows, neck, pass, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening,
     solidification, strait, stranglement, strangulation, striction,
     stricture, systole, throat, wasp waist, wrinkling