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A light powder used as a substitute for iodoform. It is a compound of iodoform and albumin.

Suitable to be written upon; capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.

he pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Of or pertaining to a kymograph; as, a kymographic tracing.

A city of Southern France. Limoges enamel, a kind of enamel ware in which the enamel is applied to the whole surface of a metal plaque, vase, or the like, and painted in enamel colors. The art was brought to a high degree of perfection in Limoges in the 16th century. -- Limoges ware. (a) Articles decorated with Limoge…

A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.

Description of man as a microcosm.

A microseismometer; specif., a microseismometer producing a graphic record.

A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.

A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.

An apparatus, consisting of a number of cells whose sides are of parchment paper, for conducting the process of osmosis. It is used esp. in sugar refining to remove potassium salts from the molasses.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

See Hemoglobin.

Art or process of printing colored photographs.

chemical substance of the highest elaboration. Germ plasm and idioplasm are forms of plasmogen.

An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb. -- Pleth`ys*mo*graph"ic, a.

The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

Same as Pneumatograph.

A description of the lungs. Dunglison.