Apparatus

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 4

(ap-ar-a'-tus). The instruments used in any science, art, or surgical operation. Anatomically the word is used to designate collectively the organs effecting any specified work or action. A. lig a mentos us coll i, the occipito-axoid ligament, abroad band at the front surface of the spinal canal that covers the odontoid proce .