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Same as Anchylose.

Same as Anchylosis.

A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's…

A division of the Invertebrata, nearly equivalent to the Articulata. It includes the Arthoropoda and Anarthropoda. By some zoölogists it is applied to the former only.

One of the Annulosa.

Furnished with, or composed of, rings or ringlike segments; ringed.

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painted.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

Loss of the sense of smell.

Being before the time of Moses.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

Transformation into the form of a human being.

The art of discovering or judging of a man's character, passions. and inclinations from a study of his visible features. [R.]

Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.

See Albumose.

The putting of one case for another.

y me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.