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What does the word tab mean?

A small piece of skin or tissue.

Usage examples for tab

Sunday the Nineteenth I've been trying to keep tab on the Twins' weight, for it's important that they should gain according to schedule. – The Prairie Mother by Arthur Stringer
He drew the suit up over the clothes he wore and closed the front with one pull of a metal tab. – The Finding of Haldgren by Charles Willard Diffin
The library- mark of the book is Estante Z. Tab. – The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II) by Washington Irving
4 und 69, Tab. – COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Alexander von Humboldt

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mediastinum

1. A septum between two parts of an organ or cavity. 2. The median dividing wall thoracic cavity, covered by mediastinal pleura and containing all viscera structures except lungs. It is divided arbitrarily into four parts: superior m. that part lying above pericardium; contains arch aorta vessels arising from it, innominate veins, upper portion vena cava, trachea, esophagus, duct, thymus, phrenic, pneumogastric, cardiac, left recurrent laryngeal nerves. middle pericardium its contents phrenic nerves accompanying vessels. anterior narrow space sternum some lymphatic glands branches internal mammary artery. posterior lies vertebral column, below level fourth vertebra; descending aorta, azygos pneumogastric , Division of cavity chest between pleural sacs., A membranous space formed by the approximation of pleura, dividing chest into two parts, one right, other left. mediastinum, double reflection extends from spine to posterior surface sternum. Its anterior part, called Mediastinum pectorale, lodges, at upper thymus gland in foetus, and is filled below with fatty, areolar tissue. parallel spine, occupied oesophagus, vena azygos, thoracic duct, lower part windpipe, origin brouchia number lymphatic glands. This mediastinum- dorsale. some anatomists, defined be pleural walls space, whilst itself termed Cavum mediasti'ni.

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