trapezium in English

noun
1
the multiple star Theta Orionis, which lies within the Great Nebula of Orion and illuminates it. Four stars are visible in a small telescope and two more with a larger telescope.
noun
1
a type of quadrilateral.
What is the length of the top edge, x, in this new trapezium ?
2
a bone in the wrist below the base of the thumb.
These involved, in addition to the base of the first carpometacarpal joint, the trapezium , navicular, surrounding fascial structures or the abductor pollicis brevis muscle.

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1. Each mop-carrier blade (5) forms a right-angled trapezium or triangle.

2. Look at the pentagon, for instance, pull this out -- it becomes a boat shape trapezium.

3. Carpals of the left hand: There are eight carpal bones in each wrist: scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, and hamate

4. 19 Objective:To analyze the clinical result of resection arthroplasty of the trapezium combined with tendon interposition in treating osteoarthritis of the first carpometacarpal joint.

5. 1823, John Lizars, A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, volume 1: This articulation of the metacarpal bone of the thumb is luxated either thenad or Anconad of the os trapezium; when thenad, there is a prominence in the palm of the hand, the finger is extended Anconad, and cannot be