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ity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

A Paracelsian.

The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.

The science which treats of minerals with special reference to their origin.

enality and rapacity, his brutal conduct, his treachery and malice." [Written also paralepsis, paralepsy, paralipsis.]

See Paraleipsis.

See Paraleipsis.

of the body; palsy. See Hemiplegia, and Paraplegia. Also used figuratively. "Utter paralysis of memory." G. Eliot. Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of ownership. Duke of Argyll (1887).

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.

The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra. -- Par*ap`o*phys"ic*al, a.

The placing of two or more nouns in the same case; apposition.

Same as Parembole.

Exhortation. [R.]

urved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes. "Seldom mentioned without a derogatory parenthesis." Sir T. Browne. Don't suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis. Watts.

Incomplete paralysis, affecting motion but not sensation.

Ossification which takes place in purely fibrous tracts; the formation of bone outside of the periosteum.

mination. It is one of the phenomena of alternate generation. Cf. Heterogamy, and Metagenesis.

Pathogeny.