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Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.

A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.

Like a net, or network; netted. [R.]

Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

Toward the neural side; -- opposed to hæmad.

relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal. Neural arch (Anat.), the cart…

f which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.

Neuralgia.

of or pertaining to a neurapophysis.

One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation.

See Axis cylinder, under Axis.

Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath.

The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves. G. H. Lewes.

A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefraction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hyd…