‖ ambe
(ˈæmbiː)
[Gr. ἄµβη, Ion. for ἄµβων a projecting lip or edge.]
1. Surg. (see quot.)
| 1711 in Lond. Gaz. mmmmdccclvii/4 This [reduction of fractures] is not effected either by the Ambe or Comander. 1743 Zollman in Phil. Trans. XLII. 387 Among the Machines which Art has invented for the performing of it, the Ambe of Hippocrates is one of the most antient and most famous. 1811 Hooper Med. Dict., Ambe, an old chirurgical machine for reducing dislocations of the shoulder, and so called, because its extremity projects like the prominence of a rock. |
2. Anat. ‘A superficial crest or eminence of a bone.’ Syd. Soc. Lex. 1879.