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Transverse head (medicine) and ster (iou)


Transverse head (medicine)


transverse head
Head of origin of a muscle which is transversely situated. Nomina Anatomica lists transverse heads (caput transversum...) of the following: 1) adductor hallucis muscle (... Musculi adductoris hallucis ); 2) adductor pollicis muscle (... Musculi adductoris pollicis ).

Synonym: caput transversum.


ster (iou)



-ster suffix.

Forming nouns from nouns or adjectives (formerly also from verbs) denoting a person (orig. a woman) engaged in or associated with a particular activity, esp. as an occupation or profession (cf. -ER1), as brewster, maltster, spinster, tapster, etc., or denoting a person associated with a particular quality, as oldster, youngster, etc.; occas. derog., as in jokester, rhymester, trickster, etc.