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Basle Nomina Anatomica

noun \ˈbä-zəl-\

Medical Definition of BASLE NOMINA ANATOMICA

:  the anatomical nomenclature adopted at the 1895 meeting of the German Anatomical Society at Basel, Switzerland, and superseded by the Nomina Anatomica adopted at the Sixth International Congress of Anatomists in 1955—abbreviation BNA

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