folium

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A leaf.

   • 278.0 common walnut-tree folium
   • In conclusion, under the recommended use conditions Uva-ursi folium is a safe therapeutic option for treating lower urinary tract infections.
   • The fire is stoked by blowing through a hollow cane made from the folium of the tucum palm.
2. 2

   A leaf (2 pages) of a codex or manuscript.

   • But Barwick and Robinson both investigated V, and inform us that V leaves almost a full folium vacant (only the first two lines of folium 227 being occupied by the text before the lacuna).
   • However, the columns of the uncial manuscripts should be seen as elements in a text block on the folium for they betray the cannons in vogue for writing the codex as it is possible to verify from a continuing tradition.
   • On f. 1 the second scribe has written an anukramajikā (on the left is noted the folium number, on the right the adhyāya number):
3. 3

   A document that acts as the legal record of a transaction.

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   1. 4

      A thin sheet or plate of a foliated rock or mineral.

      • The folia of quartz are longer, thinner, and more uniform in thickness.
      • The contacts between ore and schist are as a rule extremely sharp, in places cutting across the folia of the schist, and sharp fragments of schist are here and there inclosed by ore.
   2. 5

      A lobe on a branching structure.

      • The folia of these project considerably beyond the level of the soft cœnenchyma, and produce a very rugose appearance.
      • The folium represents the second largest gross morphologic unit of the human kidney in those protolobes that are undivided and the third largest unit in subdivided protolobes in which the lobes are present.
      • The folia are short, free or fused at the tips to form a ring of imperforate umbilical piles.
   3. 6

      A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common…

      A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches having a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop.

      • These circular cubics are Newton's defective hyperbolae, with a diameter, species 39, 41, 45; the ampullate cubic represents the folium of the unipartite quartic, and the ampaniform the bipartite quartic.
      • I have argued that the real threat the Unruh effect poses to fundamental partical interpretation lies in its suggestion that physically reasonable states outrun the folium of any single irreducible Fock space representation.
   4. 7

      Synonym of turnsole (“purple dye”).

      • Folium is thus described . "Folium is used for dying cloths and is a red colour, and another kind is purple, and another is blue.
      • The "folium" of the Greek illuminators was procured from plants growing abudantly near Athens, while that of the Hiberno-Saxon Scribes was obtained from the "norma" or "gorma" of the Celts.
      • There is a strong probability that the violets of the san Paolo Bible were roduced by a mixture of folium and album.
   5. 8

      A symmetric pattern on the abdomen of some spiders.

      • The folium of silvatica has a row of oblique black markings along the edge on each side, while in angulata it is evenly notched.
      • Abdomen subovate to subtriangular, longer than wide, dorsum with an inverted Christmas tree-like folium of brown and chalk-white bands, cardiac area brown, serving as Christmas tree base.
      • The abdomen usually has a flattened anterior edge and its pattern, if present, lacks the folium of Xysticus and is much less structured.

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