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Pecten   Listen
noun
Pecten  n.  
1.
(Anat.)
(a)
A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; also called marsupium.
(b)
The pubic bone.
2.
(Zool.) Any species of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidae); a scallop. See Scallop.
3.
(Zool.) The comb of a scorpion. See Comb, 4 (b).





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"Pecten" Quotes from Famous Books



... submitted to a microscope, will show more or less sordes adherent. The axilla-hair is plucked because if shaved the growing pile causes itching and the depilatories are held deleterious. At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it. The pecten is shaved either without or after using depilatories, of which more presently. The body-pile is removed by "Takhfif"; the Liban Shami (Syrian incense), a fir- gum imported from Scio, is melted and allowed to cool in the form of a pledget. This is passed over the face and all ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


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