Isthmus (disambiguation)

An isthmus is a strip of land connecting two larger bodies of land.


Isthmus may also refer to:

  • Isthmus (Cos), an ancient town on the Greek island of Cos
  • An anatomically narrow part of an organ. See List of anatomical isthmi
    • The visible medial third of the uterine tube is the isthmus of uterine tube or isthmus tubae uterinae
  • Isthmus (newspaper) is the name of a weekly newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin
  • In graph theory, an isthmus is an edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.
  • A fictional banana republic somewhat styled on Panama and controlled by the drug lord villain Sanchez in the 16th James Bond movie Licence to Kill.


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