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situs
[ sahy-tuhs, see- ]
noun
- position; situation.
- the proper or original position, as of a part or organ.
situs
/ ˈsaɪtəs /
noun
- position or location, esp the usual or right position of an organ or part of the body
Word History and Origins
Origin of situs1
Example Sentences
It forbids secondary or common situs picketing, closed shops and monetary donations by unions to federal political campaigns.
But lenders represented by Situs AMC put up $127.5 million representing the debt Banyan Street owed them, and this overwhelmed the paltry cash bid.
On the other hand, on the morning of the day we met, Gibson had prospected a nugget out of the newspaper: that the actor Eddie Marsan has situs inversus, a condition in which the positions of major internal organs are flipped into the opposite side of the body.
It also could be important for understanding why approximately 1 in 10,000 people are born with situs inversus, a condition where their internal organs are flipped like a lefty snail’s shell.
An earlier version of this article misstated the number of people who have the condition known as situs inversus.
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