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Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n.

Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.

Included wholly within an organ or limb, as certain groups of muscles; -- opposed to extrinsic. Intrinsic energy of a body (Physics), the work it can do in virtue of its actual condition, without any supply of energy from without. -- Intrinsic equation of a curve (Geom.), the equation which expresses the relation whic…

Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.

The introduction of a tube into an organ to keep it open, as into the larynx in croup.

o a living body; the process of nutrition, by which dead matter is absorbed by the living organism, and ultimately converted into the organized substance of its various tissues and organs. Dead bodies increase by apposition; living bodies by intrussusception. McKendrick.

Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.

The condition of an invaginated organ or part.

f words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its proper base to stand upon. Cowper.

The return of an enlarged part or organ to its normal size, as of the uterus after pregnancy.

That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera. Jer. Taylor. Then sacrificing, laid the inwards and their fat. Milton.

cultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war. --n.

A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of responding…

, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a musc…

ate; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socialism, sensualism, Anglicism.

The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne.

guttaipercha.C5H8 -- unsaturated, and used to make synthetic rubber by polymerization. In organic chemistry, viewed conceptually as the building block of the terpene series of hydrocarbons

One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.

6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.

Industrial Workers of the World (the name of two American labor organizations, one of which advocates syndicalism).