(civil engineering) An arch designed to sustain pressure similar to that exerted by earth.

(usually in the plural) An instance of flat feet that results from the arch of the foot collapsing.

(architecture) An arch that does not spring directly from the impost, but from horizontal courses of masonry resting on it.

plural of arch-rogue

Alternative form of archrogue

(anatomy) The arch of a vertebra protecting the spinal cord.

(architecture) An arch in a wall to relieve the part below it from a superincumbent weight.

Synonym of belt of Venus (“atmospheric phenomenon”)

(anatomy) The curving portion of the aorta that bends between the ascending aorta and the descending aorta, from which the brachiocephalic artery, left carotid artery, and left subclavian artery arise.

an arch constructed at an angle other than a right angle