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which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

The germinal membrane in an ovum, from which the embryo is developed.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.

A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

The language of the Czechs (the ancient inhabitants of Bohemia), the richest and most developed of the dialects of the Slavic family.

m of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the thre…

ingle colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

r branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flower.

the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a cluster of partially developed leaves, and producing, as it grows, a stem above, and roots below, as in the onion, tulip, etc. It differs from a corm in not being solid.

o lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. Byzantine style (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.

A faculty in animals of developing and preserving the heat nesessary to life, that is, the animal heat.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

r Molluscan age; -- sometimes described as inferior to the Silurian. It is named from its development in Cambria or Wales. See the Diagram under Geology.

nine toth, a toth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developen in dogs; usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.

rable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

sed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double tr…

Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.