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A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

A prefix which formerly properly indicated the second in a regular series of compound in the series, and not to its composition, but which is now generally employed in the same sense as bi- or di-, although little used.

A combining form signifying without, outside, external.

See Ect-.

Producing vomiting and purging at the same time.

A combining form signifying within; as, entoblast.

Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.

Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.

Excitomotory; as, excito-motor power or causes.

Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex action, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

Exciting nutrition; said of the reflex influence by which the nutritional processes are either excited or modified.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

See Hæma-.

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

n, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor.

Incitomotor.

A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.