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the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale.…

A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.

The nucleus or central part of the earth, forming most of its mass; -- disting. from lithosphere, hydrosphere, etc.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

An order of sponges in which the skeleton consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges.

An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries to imitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.

Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.

A waxy substance obtained from the bark of the sugar cane, and crystallizing in delicate white laminæ.

stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. [Written also cæspitose.]

, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm. [Archaic] Between us and there is fixed a great chaos. Luke xvi. 26 (Rhemish Trans. ).

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand. -- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

Inflammatory swelling of the conjunctival tissue surrounding the cornea. --Che*mot"ic (#), a.

Chemical action taking place through an intervening membrane.

Pertaining to, or produced by, chemosmosis. [R.]

Synthesis of organic compounds by energy derived from chemical changes or reactions. Chemosynthesis of carbohydrates occurs in the nitrite bacteria through the oxidation of ammonia to nitrous acid, and in the nitrate bacteria through the conversion of nitrous into nitric acid. -- Chem`o*syn*thet"ic (#), a.…