atlas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
topology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).
Inflected forms:
form: atlases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: atlantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
pos: noun
gloss: A bound collection of tables, illustrations, etc. on any given subject.
pos: noun
gloss: A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.
1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the anatomical atlas', is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.
Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.
gloss: A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
pos: noun
gloss: The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.
pos: noun
examples: There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns[…]
Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.
gloss: One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
pos: noun
gloss: A figure of a man used as a column.
pos: noun
gloss: A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
pos: noun
gloss: An image or texture containing a number of other images or textures, so as to reduce the cost of loading them separately.
pos: noun
examples: a glyph atlas used in font rendering
a texture atlas
Related words: atlantic
Derived words: atlasing
proatlas
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