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That branch of biological science, which treats of the minute structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • HISTIOLOGY
    See HISTOLOGY
  • BRANCHIOSTOMA
    The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • BRANCHLESS
    Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
  • BRANCHING
    Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.
  • BRANCHIOPODA
    An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • BRANCHINESS
    Fullness of branches.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • TECTIBRANCHIA
    See TECTIBRANCHIATA
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • NUDIBRANCHIATA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
  • ABRANCHIAL
    Abranchiate.
  • PYGOBRANCHIA
    A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiƦ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PODOBRANCH
    One of branchiƦ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
  • ASPIDOBRANCHIA
    A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.

 

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