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One opposed to vaccination.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

An Egyptian deity, the conductor of departed spirits, represented by a human figure with the head of a dog or fox.

In any wise or way; at all. "Anywise essential." Burke.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

Inflammation of the aorta.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

Same as Apheresis.

The habit of bending from the sunlight; -- said of certain plants.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

An aphetized form of a word. New Eng. Dict.

A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

e larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

ined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.