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An order of birds, including the common domestic fowls, pheasants, grouse, quails, and allied forms; -- sometimes called Rasores.

A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastræa theory of Haeckel. See G…

The division of birds which includes the gulls and terns.

The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals.

An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores.

An order of Protozoa, allied to the Rhizopoda, and parasitic in other animals, as in the earthworm, lobster, etc. When adult, they have a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.…

A genus of cretaceous fossil shells allied to the oyster.

An order of Bryozoa, having no epistome.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

The same as Gynecian.

A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.

Literally, this-ness. A scholastic term to express individuality or singleness; as, this book.

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

Hematin.

A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

Toward the hæmal side; on the hæmal side of; -- opposed to neurad.

Same as Hemadrometer.

Same as Hemadrometry.