See Also: eburnation(dictionary)
eburnation(medicine)
eburnation of dentin(medicine)
prix fixe(dictionary)
Prix de Rome(encyclopedia)
Prix de Rome(dictionary)
Grand Prix(dictionary)
Grand Prix(dictionary)
prix fixe(dictionary)
Prix (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)

Prix de Rome (iou) and eburnation (medicine)


Prix de Rome (iou)



Prix de Rome noun phr. Pl. Prixs de Rome (pronounced same). L19.
[French = prize of Rome.]
(A winner of) any of a group of prizes awarded annually by the French Government in a competition for artists, sculptors, architects, and musicians.

eburnation (medicine)


eburnation
<medicine> A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

Origin: L. Eburnus of ivory, fr. Ebur ivory: cf. F. Eburnation. See Ivory.

Source: Websters Dictionary