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Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

c., and were often at war with the Egyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed a considerable civilization, of which numerous monuments and inscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress…

Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

The pellucid substance, present in cells in process of development, from which, according to some embryologists, the cell nucleous originates.

A process, or other element, of a vertebra developed from the ventral side of the centrum, as hæmal spines, and chevron bones. -- Hy`pa*po*phys"i*al, a.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

ysiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

t, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

r having biconcave vertebræ, and sharp, conical teeth set in sockets. Its wings were well developed. It is the type of the order Odontotormæ.