Search the Dictionary

gular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and…

A median process of the labium, at the under side of the mouth in insects, and serving as a tongue.

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.

A small crustacean with one median eye.

e pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

r in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

e so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye.

ion of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians.

A line, ridge, furrow, or band of fibers, especially in the median line; as, the raphe of the tongue.

The median part of the radula of a mollusk.

are known. They are large and powerful, and usually have either one or two stout conical median horns on the snout.

Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones.

small branched gills situated on the upper side of four fleshy lateral lobes, and on the median caudal crest.

To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

The third tone of the scale; the mediant.