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Atlas vs Axial - What's the difference?

atlas | axial |

As a proper noun atlas

is (greek god) son of iapetus and clymene, war leader of the titans ordered by the god zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to hesperides, the hyades, and the pleiades; king of the legendary atlantis.

As an adjective axial is

of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

atlas

English

(wikipedia atlas)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
  • A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
  • 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.
  • * 1904 : Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs , main title (J. & A. Churchill)
  • An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs
  • * 1991 : Alan C. F. Colchester and David J. Hawkes [eds.], Information Processing in Medical Imaging , page 154] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-54246-9?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540542469)
  • 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 1840460865)
  • 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”.
  • * 2003 : Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart , page 19] ([http://www.springer.com/computer/computer+imaging/book/978-3-540-40262-6?cm_mmc=Google-_-Book%20Search-_-Springer-_-0 Springer; ISBN 9783540402626)
  • 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.
  • (topology) A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
  • (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
  • * {{quote-book, author = (William Stukeley)
  • , title = , year = 1734 , page = 58 , passage = There are of these glands upon the first vertebra'' of the neck of the ''atlas ; on which the head turns... }}
  • One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
  • (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
  • (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
  • A rich satin fabric.
  • Anagrams

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    axial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.
  • Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.
  • (botany) in the same direction as the axis, parallel to the axis.
  • the secondary xylem usually consists of axial and radial elements

    Coordinate terms

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    See also

    * abaxial * adaxial