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recessus anterior (medicine)


recessus anterior -->
anterior recess


A circumscript deepening of the interpeduncular fossa in the direction of the mamillary bodies.

Synonym: recessus anterior.


Ronsard, Pierre de (sh)




born Sept. 11, 1524, La Possonniere, near Couture, France
died Dec. 27, 1585, Saint-Cosme, near Tours

French poet.

Of a noble family, Ronsard turned to scholarship and literature after an illness left him partially deaf. He was the foremost poet of La Pleiade, a literary group that used Classical and Italian models to elevate the French language as a medium for literary expression. He was recognized in his lifetime as a prince of poets; among his diverse works were Odes (1550), inspired by Horace; Les Amours (1552); the unfinished La Franciade (1572), in imitation of Virgil's Aeneid, meant to be the national epic; and Sonnets pour Helene, now perhaps his most famous collection. He perfected and established the alexandrine as the classic form in French for scathing satire, elegiac tenderness, and tragic passion.