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Of or pertaining to sarcology.

That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.

A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.

Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.

A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.

Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.

Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.

A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

The practice of eating flesh.

A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials.

A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites.

Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites. -- a.

A division of raptorial birds composing the vultures.

One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.

A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll.

Sarcoma.

A sarcotic medicine. [R.]

Fleshy; -- applied to the minute stryctural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed.

A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

ortion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon. You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value. Locke. The scarcest of all is a Pescennius Niger on a medallion well preserved. Addison.