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Bible Guide: Clauda (Cauda)

A small island near Crete where the ship carrying Paul as a prisoner to Rome, sheltered during a tempest.

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Acts 27:16


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Columbia Encyclopedia: Gávdhos
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Gávdhos (gäv'THôs), Clauda (klô'), or Cauda ('), small Mediterranean island, S Greece, near Crete. In the Acts of the Apostles it was the refuge of St. Paul's ship during the tempest.


Medical Dictionary: cau·da
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(')
n., pl. -dae (-dē').

A tail or taillike structure, or a tapering or elongated extremity of an organ or other part.

Pl. caudae [L.] a tail or tail-like appendage.

  • c. equina — the collection of spinal roots that stream caudally from the end of the spinal cord and occupy the vertebral canal.
  • c. equina compression — see lumbosacral stenosis.
  • c. equina syndrome — see cauda equina neuritis.
  • c. helicis — caudal process of the helix of the ear of the dog.
WordNet: cauda
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Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: any taillike structure


 
 
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