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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.

osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.

The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

; also, the embryonic vesicle from which the parts of the internal ear of vertebrates are developed.

That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.

of the body wall of Bryozoa in which the ova sometimes undegro the first stages of their development. See Illust. of Chilostoma.

passage of ova from the ovary to the exterior of the animal or to the part where further development takes place. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.

transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

s, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]

tribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.

A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.