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Noun
S: (n) anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin (a central cohesive source of support and stability) "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm"
S: (n) gill arch, branchial arch, gill bar (one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians)
S: (n) peristome (region around the mouth in various invertebrates)
S: (n) bulb (a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ)
S: (n) carina (any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom)
S: (n) cingulum ((anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth))
S: (n) concha ((anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape)
S: (n) filament, filum (a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells))
S: (n) germ (a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism)
S: (n) infundibulum (any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk))
S: (n) interstice (a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ) "the interstices of a network"
S: (n) landmark (an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken)
S: (n) limbus (a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure)
S: (n) rib (a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant)
S: (n) blade (a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue))
S: (n) radicle ((anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve))
S: (n) plexus, rete (a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels)
S: (n) passage, passageway (a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass) "the nasal passages"
S: (n) fundus ((anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening) "the uterine fundus"; "the fundus of the stomach"
S: (n) funiculus (any of several body structure resembling a cord)
S: (n) head (that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves)
S: (n) membranous labyrinth (the sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea; contained within the bony labyrinth)
S: (n) cytoskeleton (a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence)
S: (n) centromere, kinetochore (a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape) "the centromere is difficult to sequence"
S: (n) aster (star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis)
S: (n) costa (a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing))
S: (n) head (the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint) "the head of the humerus"
S: (n) bridge (the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose) "her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose"
S: (n) rotator cuff (a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move)
S: (n) cornu ((anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape)
S: (n) corona ((anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape)
S: (n) receptor (a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response)
S: (n) zone, zona ((anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure)
S: (n) spine, backbone (the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved) "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"
S: (n) backbone (the part of a network that connects other networks together) "the backbone is the part of a communication network that carries the heaviest traffic"