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Word "DIAPHRAGM" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
Synonyms:
contraceptive diaphragm, pessary

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
(anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration
Synonyms:
midriff

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
Synonyms:
stop
Examples:
the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically

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Clue Source Date
Thin muscular sheet separating the abdomen and thorax (9)
Muscular structure used when breathing The Guardian Quick 04 Jan 2024
Muscular structure used when breathing (9)
Aphid, about a gram, could produce a camera piece (9)
Helper turned to describe complicated graph for birth control The Guardian Cryptic 21 Nov 2023
Muscle of respiration The Times Concise 01 Jun 2023
Midriff The Telegraph Quick 17 Oct 2022
Thoracic division The Telegraph Quick 03 Nov 2021
Flexible membrane The Times Concise 16 Jan 2021
Doctored graph stopping virgin on the rebound getting contraceptive
Muscle that controls breathing USA Today 25 Apr 2019
Membrane The Telegraph Quick 09 Feb 2019
Muscle that controls breathing
Inspiration will bring one down
Strange paradigm about hospital displaying body part The Telegraph Cryptic 24 Sep 2018
Not clear about a graph distorted in partition
Not clear about a graph distorted in partition
Page hundred introduced diagram representing membrane
Dividing membrane The Times Concise 07 Aug 2017
Paid back low newspaper interrupting Her Majesty's division
Separating membrane in the body The Telegraph General Knowledge 26 Mar 2017
Hospital in the midst of paradigm shift created birth control device
Gives one a breather in 26 across depending on how you look at it? Irish Times Crosaire 23 Mar 2015
Paid back by the hour with silver - 1000 for separating membrane
Part of a camera rim had gap for adjustment
Vibrating disk.
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