clyvest

A Middle English plural of cliff1. cm. A contraction of centimeter. C.M. An abbreviation of the Latin (New Latin) Chirurgiæ Magister, Master in Surgery. = cn-. [(1) ME. en-, later as in mod. E. regularly kn-, initial combination not now admitted in actual English speech (the c being silent), though retained in the spelling of some words from the Greek. (a) In native English words, regularly in the earliest speech, but not now used except in a few instances, as eпад, спор, cnoutberry, where kn- is preferred. See kn-. (b) In words of Greek origin, as cnemial, cnemis, etc. cnag, n. See knag. cnemapophysis (ne-ma-pof'i-sis), n.; pl. cпе mapophyses (-sēz). [NL., Gr. κνήμη, the lower part of the leg, + ἀπόφυσις, an apophysis.] The large enemial apophysis or proce of the tibia of some birds, as loons and grebes, which extends far above the knee-joint and serves for the attachment of extensor muscles. It is an ex tension of the enemial crest or tuberosity, and corresponds cnemial (ne'mi-al), a. [ proce ; the cnemial ridge. See cut under tibio tarsus. The proximal end of the tibia is produced forward and Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. outward into an enormous enemial crest, in all walking 1830 .