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See Microbacteria.

Of or pertaining to the Elasmobranchii. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Elasmobranchii. -- n.

A subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimæra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

Incapable of being moved; immovable; fixed; stable. Prof. Shedd.

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

See Immobile.

Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.

A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.

greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.

Same as Pulmonibranchiata, -ate.

One of the cells formed by the diivision of the spermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast.

An instrument for recording simultaneously the pressure and temperature of a gas; a combined thermograph and barograph.

An instrument for determining altitudes by the boiling point of water.

A thermoelectric battery; a thermopile.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.