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Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.

See Hyperæsthesia.

An imagined space having more than three dimensions.

An orthorhombic mineral of the pyroxene group, of a grayish or greenish black color, often with a peculiar bronzelike luster (schiller) on the cleavage surface.

Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.

Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman.

That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.

Of or pertaining to hypertrophy; affected with, or tending to, hypertrophy.

Excessively developed; characterized by hypertrophy.

ition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure.

To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

United by hyphens; hyphened; as, a hyphenated or hyphened word.

One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads. M. J. Berkley.

- said of rock a portion only of whose constituents have a distinct crystalline form. -- Hy*pid`i*o*mor"phic*al*ly, adv.

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

Leading to sleep; -- applied to the illusions of one who is half asleep.

A somnambulist. [R.]

A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts.

Relating to the production of hypnotic sleep; as, the so-called hypnogenic pressure points, pressure upon which is said to cause an attack of hypnotic sleep. De Watteville.