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The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.

A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat (1859-91), and carried on by Paul Signac (1863- -) and others. Its method is marked by the laying of pure primary colors in minute dots upon a white ground,…

A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.

An embryo or certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

, the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

An elastic cartilagelike rod which is developed beneath the medullary groove in the vertebrate embryo, and constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.

That which promotes development or growth. Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the mind Swift.

Not very distinct; obscure; rudimental; imperfectly developed; abortive.

Indistinctness; want of development.

er, supposed, by Reichenbach and others, to produce the phenomena of mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by magnets, heat, light, chemical or vital action, etc.; -- called also odyle or the odylic force. [Archaic] That od force of German Reichenbach Which still, from female finger tips, burnt blue. M…

Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.

The science which treats of the teeth, their structure and development.

The history of the individual development of an organism; the history of the evolution of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

The development, or mode of origin, of the ova.

The origin and development of organs in animals and plants.