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The art of forming figures in any plastic material.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. -- n.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

A kind of granite or gneiss containing a silvery talcose mineral.

Same as Proterogynous.

A photograph printed by a process in which a strip or roll of sensitized paper is automatically fed over the negative so that a series of prints are made, and are then developed, fixed, cut apart, and washed at a very rapid rate.

An instrument for writing in the dark, or without seeing. Maunder.

Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.

Same as Spermosphere.

The development of the spermatozoids.

Relating to, or connected with, spermatogenesis; as, spermatogenetic function.

Sperm-producing.

A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.

heavy; coarse; clumsy. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to the mouth and the stomach; as, the stomatogastric ganglion of certain Mollusca.

Of or pertaining to stratography.