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An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

s in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.

notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.

An organic radical, C3H5, existing especially in oils of garlic and mustard.

Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. [Colloq.] Richardson. The man of law began to get into his altitude. Sir W. Scott. Meridian altitude, an arc of the meridian intercepted between the south point on the horizon and any point on the meridian. See Meridian, 3.

To coalesce, as a result of growth; to combine into a uniform whole; to blend; as, two organs or parts amalgamate.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

An order of ganoid fishes of which Amis is type. See Bowfin and Ganoidei.

Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges.

Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexual organs; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order of plants.

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

The substance deposited in the organs in amyloid degeneration.

ntaining amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

Microörganisms which do not require oxygen, but are killed by it. Sternberg.

An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

A relation or correspondence in function, between organs or parts which are decidedly different.

The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.