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TRANSVERSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transversely mean? 

TRANSVERSELY (adverb)
  The adverb TRANSVERSELY has 1 sense:

1. in a transverse mannerplay

  Familiarity information: TRANSVERSELY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TRANSVERSELY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a transverse manner

Synonyms:

transversally; transversely

Context example:

they were cut transversely

Pertainym:

transverse (extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis)


 Context examples 


A surgical incision line on the uterus that is transversely cut in relation to the lower uterine segment.

(Lower Uterine Segment Incision, NCI Thesaurus)

Metacentric chromosomes produced during MEIOSIS or MITOSIS when the CENTROMERE splits transversely instead of longitudinally.

(Isochromosome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A mixed exocrine and endocrine gland situated transversely across the posterior abdominal wall in the epigastric and hypochondriac regions.

(Murine Pancreas, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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