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Isthmus (disambiguation)

Last revised by Daniel J Bell on 21 Jan 2022

Isthmus (plural: isthmi) is an anatomical term and refers to a slender structure joining two larger components. Some of these uses of the word isthmus are now rarely used or only seen in older texts and articles:

History and etymology

Derived from the Ancient Greek ισθμος (isthmos) meaning a neck of land 2.

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