RIMA (rimae)

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Irregular inflected form: rimae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rima mean? 

• RIMA (noun)
  The noun RIMA has 1 sense:

1. a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts

  Familiarity information: RIMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("rima" is a kind of...):

opening; orifice; porta (an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rima"):

mouth; oral cavity; oral fissure; rima oris (the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge)

pudendal cleavage; pudendal cleft; pudendal slit; rima pudendi; rima vulvae; urogenital cleft; vulvar slit (the fissure between the labia majora)

glottis vera; rima glottidis; rima vocalis; true glottis (the space between the two true vocal folds)

false glottis; glottis spuria; rima respiratoria; rima vestibuli (the opening between the false vocal folds)

 Context examples 

The vocal apparatus of the larynx, consisting of the true vocal cords (plica vocalis) and the opening between them (rima glottidis).

(Murine Glottis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)