Look up: Insula

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   insula
   Latin, meaning: island.
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/iii.htm
   
   
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   Insula
   Latin, meaning: Lille
   Found on http://archives.nd.edu/iii.htm
   
   
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   INSULA
   acronym: International Scientific Council for Island Development (NGO)
   Found on http://cdiac.ornl.gov/pns/acronyms.html#
   
   
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   Insula
   (Latin) Roman apartment complexes; an insula might have included up to eight apartment blocks built around an open courtyard, which provided much needed light; the complexes were three to five stories tall and could easily block the light for neighboring buildings; the first floor often housed merchants' shops, or tabernae; during the rise of the Roman empire, the majority of the Roman population was housed in rooms rented in insulae; these tenements became overcrowded and vulnerable to fire built with timber and mud bricks; thin walls were made out of opus craticum, which was a woven mixture of cane and mortar; the walls were neither waterproof nor fireproof; eventually emperors, such as Nero, imposed fire regulations; as a result of the upper stories lacked running water sanitation suffered; by the end of the fourth century BCE, insulae outnumbered domi twenty-six to one.
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   insula
   In Roman towns and cities, ordinary Romans usually lived in a multi-storey apartment building called an insula, where each apartment was called a cenaculum. Apartment buildings often rose up to at least 4 or 6 stories high with the ground floor usually occupied by shops. Even fairly richer tradesmen might chose to live in an apartment building comp...
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   insula
   1. An oval region of the cerebral cortex overlying the extreme capsule, lateral to the lenticular nucleus, buried in the depth of the fissura lateralis cerebri (sylvian fissure). ... Synonym: insular area, insular cortex, island of Reil. ... Synonym: island. ... 3. Any circumscribed body or patch on the skin. ... Origin: L. Island ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   Insula
   `Insula` is the Latin word for `island`. `Insula` may also mean: * A Roman building with several stories; the lowest floor was used for shops and the higher for residence (the higher, the cheaper) * `Ã?nsula Barataria`, the governorship assigned to Sancho Panza as a prank in the novel `Don Quixote` * The insular cortex, also known as the `insula`, a human brain structure
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   insula
   (in´sә-lә) pl. in´sulae Latin word meaning island. In anatomy, it is used for a triangular area of the cerebral cortex that forms the floor of the lateral cerebral fossa; called also island of Reil.
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   insula
   (Latin: `island`), in architecture, block of grouped but separate buildings or a single structure in ancient Rome and Ostia. The insulae were ... [2 related articles]
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/i/26