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A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.

oose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.

ohannes Müller. Müllerian ducts (Anat.), a pair of embryonic ducts which give rise to the genital passages in the female, but disappear in the male. -- Müllerian fibers (Anat.), the sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina.

One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

The privy parts; the genitals. Ham ... saw the nakedness of his father. Gen. ix. 22.

A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

he region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

The private parts; the genitals. In private, secretly; not openly or publicly.

The genitals; the privates.

The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed; the genital organs. In secret, in a private place; in privacy or secrecy; in a state or place not seen; privately. Bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Prov. ix. 17.

ex; peculiar to the distinction and office of male or female; relating to the distinctive genital organs of the sexes; proceeding from, or based upon, sex; as, sexual characteristics; sexual intercourse, connection, or commerce; sexual desire; sexual diseases; sexual generation. Sexual dimorphism (Biol.), the condition…

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

One of the essential male genital glands which secrete the semen.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

Destitute of genitals; impotent. [R.] Shak.

Specifically, the canal which leads from the uterus to the external orifice if the genital canal, or to the cloaca.

Of or pertaining to the vagina of the genital canal; as, the vaginal artery.

Inflammation of the vagina, or the genital canal, usually of its mucous living membrane.

The external parts of the female genital organs; sometimes, the opening between the projecting parts of the external organs.

Fig wart, Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma. Called also pointed wart, venereal wart. L. A. Duhring. -- Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under Swine. -- Wart snake (Zoöl.), any one of…