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mesquit (medicine)


mesquit
<botany> A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.

Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree (Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as Food by the Indians. Mesquite grass, a rich native grass in Western Texas (Bouteloua oligostachya, and Other species); so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree.

Synonym: muskit grass, grama grass.

Origin: Sp. Mezquite; said to be a Mexican Indian word.

Source: Websters Dictionary


aorta (sh)




Artery that carries blood from the heart to all the organs and structures of the body.

Where the left ventricle opens into the aorta, a valve prevents backflow of blood into the heart. The aorta ascends from the heart, arches over it to the left, then descends into the trunk. Arteries branch off along its length until it divides at hip level into arteries that go to the legs.