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A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.

The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

A noun which has only two cases. Andrews.

See Endothorax.

Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

A person employed to do all kinds of work or business. B. Jonson.

A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Same as Hematotherma.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

Same as Hemothorax.

A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

Warm-blooded.

One who dissects, or studies the anatomy of, reptiles.

The anatomy or dissection of reptiles.

The dissection of organic tissues.

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds. Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (C. maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers. Loudon. -- Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.…

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering. Tylor.

A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.