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Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

An instrument for cutting or dissecting nerves.

Of or pertaining to neurotomy.

One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.

The orotund voice or utterance Rush.

The orotund mode of intonation.

Having a form intermediate between that of an egg and a sphere; roundly ovate.

Same as Ovate-rotundate.

On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear. Parotic region (Zoöl.), the space around the ears.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parotid gland. Parotid gland (Anat.), one of the salivary glands situated just in front of or below the ear. It is the largest of the salivary glands in man, and its duct opens into the interior of the mouth opposite the second molar of the upper jaw.

Inflammation of the parotid glands. Epidemic, or Infectious, parotitis, mumps.

Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs. -- n.

hey have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases. Ca…

The glory pea. See under Glory.

One who simply repeats what he has heard. [R.] J. S. Mill.

Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. Quain. Dunglison.