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ramus, branch
An offshoot or subdivision arising from the bifurcation of a blood vessel, a lymph vessel, or a nerve.

In anatomy, a branch; such as, a branch of a blood vessel or nerve. An example is the ramus acetabularis arteriae circumflexae femoris medialis is the branch of an artery that goes to the socket of the hip joint.

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Units related to: “branch”
clado-, clad-, -cladous +
(Greek klados: shoot, young branch; branch; twig)
rami-, ram-
(Latin: branch, branches, or a forked structure; ramus (singular), rami (plural); a general term for a smaller structure given off by a larger one, or into which the larger structure; such as, a blood vessel or nerve, divides)
rhabd-, rhabdo- +
(Greek: rod; twig, stick, strip, branch; rod-shaped, striated; wand)
meta-, met-, meth-
(Greek: after, behind, beyond; changed in form, altered; higher [used to designate a higher degree of a branch of science])
-ology, -logy, -ologist, -logist
(Greek: a suffix meaning: to talk, to speak; a branch of knowledge; any science or academic field that ends in -ology which is a variant of -logy; a person who speaks in a certain manner; someone who deals with certain topics or subjects)
thall-, thallo-, thal-, thalli- +
(Greek: young branch, shoot; thallus, a simple-plant body with undifferentiated root, stem, and leaf)