Meanings of insulae in English

Nor can we fix the number of the 'insulae'.

In this system perhaps the most peculiar feature is the intermixture of square and oblong 'insulae'.

These changes were most pronounced in the frontal and temporal lobes, especially in the cingulate gyri and insulae.

Fronting north with westing, it is divided into squares, blocks, and insulae, after the fashion of a chessboard.

If the Graeco-Macedonian fashion be quoted as precedent for square or squarish 'insulae', the Terremare show the same.

But it is not easy to fix its area, nor are unmistakable 'insulae' to be detected outside them.

Results: Patients with pro-DLB showed diminished GM volumes of bilateral insulae and right anterior cingulate cortex compared with control subjects.

In the historic period, it would seem, no sharp line was drawn, or felt to exist, between the various types of 'insulae'.

At Rome too, efforts were made by various emperors to limit the height of the large tenement houses which there formed the 'insulae'.

The larger 'insulae', which lie west of the main north and south street, are oblong and measure about 150 x 100 yds.

It often appears as the Fortunate Isle or Islands, "Insulae Fortunatae" or "Beatae."

In point of fact, these islands were called Insulae Britannicae by the Romans in 350 BC.

These islands, anciently called the Insulae Fortunatae, or Fortunate Islands, are seven in number, in lat.

Readers will find it in its Latin form, Insulae Britannides, in the Latin Dictionary of Lewis and Short.

Stirpium Insulæ Luzonensis et Philippinarum a Georgio Josepho Canello; London, 1704, 83]

Six 'INSULAE' IN S.W.