Ramus can refer to:
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branch
A branch, also called a ramus in botany, is a stem that grows off from another stem, or when structures like veins in leaves are divided into smaller veins.
History and etymology
In Old English, there are numerous words for branch, includ ...
(botany)
* A portion of a bone (from Latin ''ramus'', "branch"), as in the
Ramus of the mandible
In jawed vertebrates, the mandible (from the Latin ''mandibula'', 'for chewing'), lower jaw, or jawbone is a bone that makes up the lowerand typically more mobilecomponent of the mouth (the upper jaw being known as the maxilla).
The jawbone ...
or
Superior pubic ramus
In vertebrates, the pubis or pubic bone () forms the lower and anterior part of each side of the hip bone. The pubis is the most forward-facing (ventral and anterior) of the three bones that make up the hip bone. The left and right pubic bones ar ...
* A nerve ramus such as the
Dorsal ramus of spinal nerve
The dorsal ramus of spinal nerve, posterior ramus of spinal nerve, or posterior primary division is the posterior division of a spinal nerve. The dorsal rami provide motor innervation to the deep (a.k.a. intrinsic or true) muscles of the back, and ...
* A
taxonomic rank
In biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according to some definitions of these terms) is the relative or absolute level of a group of or ...
("branch" in English) intermediate between subkingdom and infrakingdom
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Webster, Illinois Webster, Illinois may refer to:
* Webster, Hancock County, Illinois
* Webster, Iroquois County, Illinois
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, a settlement initially known as "Ramus"
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Ramus Pomifer
Ramus Pomifer (Latin for ''apple branch'') was a constellation between Hercules and Lyra.
It was depicted in the form of a branch held in Hercules' left hand. The also-obsolete constellation of Cerberus
In Greek mythology, Cerberus ( or ; ...
, an obsolete constellation
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102 Herculis
102 Herculis, also named Ramus, is a single star in the northern constellation of Hercules. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, blue-white hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.37. Based upon parallax measurements, it is ...
, a star named Ramus after the constellation
People:
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Edmond Ramus
Edmond Joseph Ramus (5 May 1822 – 1890) was a French etching, etcher best known for his reproductions of paintings for art catalogues.
Ramus was born in Paris and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1847.[Petrus Ramus
Petrus Ramus (; Anglicized as Peter Ramus ; 1515 – 26 August 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A Protestant convert, he was a victim of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Early life
He was born at the village ...]
(1515–1572), influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer
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Tetyana Ramus (born 1980) Ukrainian artist, designer, TV and radio journalist, public activist, producer, publisher, author of television projects
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