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thymic branches of internal thoracic artery(medicine)
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incongruous (iou) and mediastinal branches of internal thoracic artery (medicine)


incongruous (iou)



incongruous adjective. E17.
[from Latin incongruus, formed as IN-3 + CONGRUOUS: see -OUS.]
Grammar. Violating the rules of concord; incorrect. Only in 17.
Not appropriate; unsuitable, out of place, absurd. E17.
R. Warner To be thinking of..love while dressing for a funeral may seem an incongruous thing. D. Athill His handsbroad peasant hands..look incongruous because the rest of him is finely made.
Disagreeing in character or qualities; out of keeping, discordant, inconsistent. (Foll. by with, to.) (Passing into sense 2.) E17.
W. Holtby The cats were the only incongruous occupants of that precise impersonal room. D. Cecil A..mixture of incongruous characteristics as to bewilder anyone who came into contact with him.
Having disparate or inharmonious parts or elements; incoherent. M17.
Burke We are not at all embarrassed..by any incongruous mixture of coercion and restraint.
incongruously adverb M17.
incongruousness noun E18.

mediastinal branches of internal thoracic artery (medicine)


mediastinal branches of internal thoracic artery
<anatomy, artery> Small twigs supplying anterior mediastinal structures: mainly thymus and lymph nodes.

Synonym: rami mediastinales arteriae thoracicae internae, rami thymici, anterior mediastinal arteries, arteriae thymicae, thymic arteries.