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d. Animal magnetism. See Magnetism and Mesmerism. -- Animal electricity, the electricity developed in some animals, as the electric eel, torpedo, etc. -- Animal flower (Zoöl.), a name given to certain marine animals resembling a flower, as any species of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishe…

The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.

gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

The science or study of human generation, or the origin and development of man.

The science of the laws of the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment. -- An`thro*po*nom"ic*al (#), a.

variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.

Incomplete or faulty development.

The substance from which attraction spheres develop in mitotic cell division, and of which they consist.

r restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. As the arrest of the air showeth. Bacon.

origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical combinations take…

A kind of chætopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

A bar of cartilage at the base of the embryonic fins of some fishes. It develops into the metapterygium. -- Ba*sip`ter*yg"i*al (, a.

To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom; as, hops bell.

Life development generally.