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Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasalturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelæ of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal. -- n.

The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.

Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). [R.] the head is not more native to the heart, ... Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. Shak.

Connected by the ties of consanguinity. "Natural friends." J. H. Newman.

a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

ed, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

Closely connected or related. She is thy father's near kinswoman. Lev. xviii. 12.

Necessary connection or relation. Between kings and their people, parents and their children, there is so great a necessitude, propriety, and intercourse of nature. Jer. Taylor.

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

gs of insects. Nerve cell (Anat.), one of the nucleated cells with which nerve fibers are connected; a ganglion cell. -- Nerve fiber (Anat.), one of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either medullated or nonmedullated. in both kinds the essential part is the translucent threadlike axis cylinder…

A figure made up of a large number of straight lines or curves, which are connected at certain points and related to each other by some specified law.

vory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.

neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.

Connection; tie. Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.