gossip

1. n. personal talk or communication of often unsubstantiated information. Gossip may be scandalous in content or malicious in intention, but it need not be so. Many of the functions of gossip have significant implications for group processes, including bonding, norm transmission, and norm reinforcement.

2. vb. to engage in such talk.

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July 27th 2024

ramus

n. (pl. rami)

1. a branch of a blood vessel or a nerve.

2. any of the large branches of a spinal nerve after it emerges from the spinal column, notably the anteriorly directed ventral ramus and the posteriorly directed dorsal ramus. These distribute motor and sensory nerve fibers to other, smaller nerves.

3. any of the short nerve branches that arise from the ventral ramus and communicate with sympathetic ganglia (see rami communicantes).