(Anatomi) 1. A branch, as of a plant, nerve, or blood vessel.2. A bony process extending like a branch from a larger bone, especially the ascending part of the lower jaw that makes a joint at the temple
Ramus agrees with Quintilian that "rhetoric is the art of speaking well, not about this or that, but about all subjects" (573) but disagrees with him in arguing that "invention, arrangement, and memory belong to dialectic, and only style and delivery to rhetoric" (570)
Paired vertical posterior parts of the mandible that serve as attachment areas for the muscles of mastication and also contain the condyles that articulate with the temporal bones Plural; rami