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Same as Protoza.

One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm. Haeckel.

A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.

The art of forming figures in any plastic material.

A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.

Assuming, or having the power of assuming, many forms; as, a polyplastic element which does not preserve its original shape.

The portoise. See Portoise.

Forming a mold.

The art of making molds for castings. [R.]

iduals, each of which is hypothetically considered to be the descendant of the same protoplast, or of the same pair of protoplasts. Latham.

A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.

First-formed. Howell.

Of or pertaining to rhinoplasty; as, a rhinoplastic operation.

Plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person.

A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.

Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. Sir K. Digby.

Scholastic.

In a scholastic manner.

The method or subtitles the schools of philosophy; scholastic formality; scholastic doctrines or philosophy. The spirit of the old scholasticism . . . spurned laborious investigation and slow induction. J. P. Smith.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. [U. S.]