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atise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

The collection of postage stamps of various issues.

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

That portion of fibrovascular bundles which corresponds to the inner bark; the liber tissue; -- distinguished from xylem.

formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll-containing tissues of plants exposed to the action of light. It was formerly called assimilation, but this is now commonly used as in animal physiology. The details of the process are not yet clearly known. Baeyer's theory is that the carbon…

A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption. Fibroid phthisis. See under Fibroid.

physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

ation (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

es, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue.

Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.

A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority. [Obs.] All placards or edicts are published in his name. Howell.

The viscous material of an animal or vegetable cell, out of which the various tissues are formed by a process of differentiation; protoplasm.

rties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point. Blackstone.

A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.

A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded. Mozley & W.

Pertaining to, or composing, the layer of tissue, made up of laminæ, beneath a horse's hoof.

g pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen grain on its contact with the stigma, which it penetrates, thus conveying, it is supposed, the fecundating matter of the grain to the ovule.