Word Meanings - THIGH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

• TRUNKENGINE
  An engine having a trunk piston, as most internal combustion engines.
• TRUNKPISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• TRUNKSTEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• Proximally
  On or toward a proximal part; proximad.
• Segmentation
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation.

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