What's the difference between clavis and clevis?

Clavis


Definition:

  • (n.) A key; a glossary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a result, subungual clavi, unguis incarnatus, unguis convolutus, or laterally turning onychogryposis like a cork-screw develop.
  • (2) A thirty-seven year old man presented with volar lesions resembling widespread clavi.
  • (3) No arthritic recurrences were observed, callosities, clavi and mild pain were rarely found.
  • (4) Repetitive frictional insults over years to human skin result in lichenification, callosites, and clavi (corns).
  • (5) The clavi-pectoral route provides a limited approach to the axillary vessels as they emerge from the costal-subclavian outlet.
  • (6) The spaces are: "Pleural suspensory Apparatus", interscalene spaces (vascular and neural), costo-clavicular, clavi-pectoral, retro-pectoralis minor, pre-humeral head, median nerve roots compass, pre-scalene space.
  • (7) All three deliberately present themselves in a very Roman way - the woman has her jewellery and the men wear clavi , white tunics with red stripes.

Clevis


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of metal bent in the form of an oxbow, with the two ends perforated to receive a pin, used on the end of the tongue of a plow, wagen, etc., to attach it to a draft chain, whiffletree, etc.; -- called also clavel, clevy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The technique for immobilizing these fractures involves a sliding a Kuntscher nail over a tension rod, and then fixing the clevis of the tension rod to the distal bone fragments by a transverse screw.

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