“nomina”

The following 2 entries include the term nomina.

Basle Nomina Anatomica

noun

: the anatomical nomenclature adopted at the 1895 meeting of the German Anatomical Society at Basel, Switzerland, and superseded by the Nomina Anatomica adopted at the Sixth International Congress of Anatomists in 1955 abbreviation BNA

Nomina Anatomica

noun

: the Latin anatomical nomenclature that was prepared by revising the Basle Nomina Anatomica, adopted in 1955 at the Sixth International Congress of Anatomists, and modified at subsequent Congresses abbreviation NA


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