slit : Idioms & Phrases


Gill opening, ∨ Gill slit

  • (Anat.), an opening behind and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the water from the gills is discharged. In most fishes there is a single opening on each side, but in the sharks and rays there are five, or more, on each side.
Webster 1913

Gill slit

  • noun one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
    gill cleft; branchial cleft.
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  • . (Anat.) See Gill opening, under Gill.
Webster 1913

pudendal slit

  • noun the fissure between the labia majora
    pudendal slit; rima pudendi; pudendal cleavage; rima vulvae; pudendal cleft; urogenital cleft.
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slit lamp

  • noun (ophthalmology) a lamp that emits a narrow but intense beam of light that enables an ophthalmologist, using a microscope, to view the retina and optic nerve
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slit trench

  • noun narrow trench for shelter in battle
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slit-shell

Slit"-shell" noun
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  1. (Zoöl.) Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a deep slit in the outer lip. Many fossil species are known, and a few living ones are found in deep water in tropical seas.
Webster 1913

vulvar slit

  • noun the fissure between the labia majora
    pudendal slit; rima pudendi; pudendal cleavage; rima vulvae; pudendal cleft; urogenital cleft.
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