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Banana (medicine) and tympanostomy (medicine)


Banana (medicine)


banana
<botany> A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

The banana has a soft, herbaceous stalk, with leaves of great length and breadth. The flowers grow in bunches, covered with a sheath of a green or purple colour; the fruit is five or six inches long, and over an inch in diameter; the pulp is soft, and of a luscious taste, and is eaten either raw or cooked. This plant is a native of tropical countries, and furnishes an important article of Food. Banana bird, a small bird of tropical America, of the genus Certhiola, allied to the creepers.

Origin: Sp. Banana, name of the fruit.

Source: Websters Dictionary


tympanostomy (medicine)


tympanostomy


Synonym: myringotomy.

Origin: tympano-+ G. Ostium, mouth