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of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain.

cations, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

A typical, structural unit; a type. Agassiz.

The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.

, and childcrowing. -- Spasmodic stricture, a stricture caused by muscular spasm without structural change. See Organic stricture, under Organic.

Having the color spots, or structural parts, arranged spirally.

A minute groove, or channel; a threadlike line, as of color; a narrow structural band or line; a striation; as, the striæ, or groovings, produced on a rock by a glacier passing over it; the striæ on the surface of a shell; a stria of nervous matter in the brain.

Marked with striaæ, or fine grooves, or lines of color; showing narrow structural bands or lines; as, a striated crystal; striated muscular fiber.

nd similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical.

Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive,

A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

rphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon.

A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.

(see Differentiation, 3), that is, which show no visible separation into their different structural parts.