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A superabundance or congestion of blood in an organ or part of the body. Active hyperæmia, cognestion d%ue to increased flow of blood to a part. -- Passive hyperæmia, interchange due to obstruction in the return of blood from a part. -- Hy`per*æ"mic, a.

Higher than, or beyond the sphere of, the organic. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

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.

an action upon the nerves, through the medium of the senses, as in persons of very feeble organization, by gazing steadly at a very bright object held before the eyes, or by pressure upon certain points of the surface of the body.

Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains. Lyell.

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph"y*tal, a.

sess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

aining, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group. Imido acid, an organic acid, consisting of one or more acid radicals so united with the imido group that it contains replaceable acid hydrogen, and plays the part of an acid; as, uric acid, succinimide, etc., are imido acids.…

Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. Jer. Taylor.

air in the mouth, simultaneously with and affecting the sound made by the closure of the organs in uttering p, t, or k, at the end of a syllable (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§159, 189); also, a similar compression made by an upward thrust of the larynx without any accompanying explosive action, as in the peculiar sou…

ing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Free; not connected with the other organs.

Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.

The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as, incontinence of urine.

To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into t…

Generation. [Obs.] "Organs of increase." Shak.

One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority.

The principles or policy applicable to industrial pursuits or organized labor. Industrialism must not confounded with industriousness. H. Spencer.

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.