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The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra.

of a wheel on a metal track. The tread consists of a number of rubber shod feet which are connected by ball-and-socket joints to the ends of sliding spokes. Each spoke has attached to it a small roller which in its turn runs under a short pivoted rail controlled by a powerful set of springs. This arrangement permits th…

A band of nervous or fibrous matter connecting different parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [Written also Pequods.]

A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

Of or pertaining to the periople; connected with the periople.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

parently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862.

To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

he science of the special functions of the several parts of the brain, or of the supposed connection between the various faculties of the mind and particular organs in the brain.

pertaining to physics, or natural philosophy; treating of, or relating to, the causes and connections of natural phenomena; as, physical science; physical laws. "Physical philosophy." Pope.