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r Canholic. -- Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain porti…

the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

The science which treats of the heart and its functions.

The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functions or products of the brain only.

fficers. His office is distinct from that of the lord chamberlain of the Household, whose functions relate to the royal housekeeping.

rder which are imagined to pass through the two circular points at infinity. -- Circular functions. (Math.) See under Function. -- Circular instruments, mathematical instruments employed for measuring angles, in which the graduation extends round the whole circumference of a circle, or 360º. -- Circular lines, strai…

A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.

The office or functions of a constable.

e (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.

mbining so as to produce harmonious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.…

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

f a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. "The queen, my lord, is dead." Shak. The crew, all except himself, were dead of hunger. Arbuthnot. Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living. Shak.

Tending deceive; delusive. [R.] As if those organs had deceptious functions. Shak.

To disturb in action or function, as a part or organ, or the whole of a machine or organism. A sudden fall deranges some of our internal parts. Blair.

The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.