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Rhythm.

-- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye.

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum. Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.

vous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the thymus gland. -- n.

Floccillation.

The lockjaw.

A genus of trees including the elm.

Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.

A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.

ng of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A#) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.

ities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral; as, the abdominal regions, muscles, cavity.

A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

formerly Abelmoschus- moschatus), of the East and West Indies and Northern Africa, whose musky seeds are used in perfumery and to flavor coffee; -- sometimes called musk mallow.