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frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

Pertaining to the endocardium.

Inflammation of the endocardium.

The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

See Carbuncle, 3.

A nursery of snails. [Obs.] Addison.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

und about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

To deprive or clear of flesh. Grew.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.

To clear of flesh; to excarnate. Dr. H. More.

The act of excarnificating or of depriving of flesh; excarnation. Johnson.

Situated or arising outside of the heat; as, exocardial murmurs; -- opposed to endocardiac.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

A kind of cartilage with a fibrous matrix and approaching fibrous connective tissue in structure. -- Fi`bro*car`ti*lag"i*nous, a.