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A form of hemoglobinometer.

Relating to the measurement of the amount of hematin or hemoglobin contained in blood, or other fluids.

See Hemoglobin.

A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.

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

An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.

representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism, -- as in the lobster, where the parts follow each other in a straight line or series. Owen. See Homotypy. -- Special homology (Biol.), the correspondence of a part or organ with those of a different animal, as determined by relative position…

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

ng through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15º, or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours…

A pellucid variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.

issolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

ction of artificial membranes by contact of two fluids, as albumin and fat, by which the globules of the latter are surrounded by a thin film of the former.

An oval lobe beneath each of the optic lobes in many fishes; one of the inferior lobes. Owen.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

ather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. -- Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.…

or noting, equal angles. Isogonic lines (Magnetism), lines traced on the surface of the globe, or upon a chart, connecting places at which the deviation of the magnetic needle from the meridian or true north is the same.

A sudden start or spring. Lobsters . . . swim backwards by jerks or springs. Grew.

upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.