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A steelyard for weighting grain.

One of the Chondropterygii.

etc.) and selachians (sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

The dissection of cartilages.

ded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.

An order of sponges, having simple siliceous spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea.

The hypochondriac regions. See Hypochondrium.

Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.

Same as Hypochondriac, 2. -- Hy`po*chon"dri*a*cal*ly, adv.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health.

Hypochondriasis. [R.]

Either of the hypochondriac regions.

Hypochondriasis.

A Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa, India, a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess, murder of female infants, and marriage by capture.