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Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- As`yn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements. Ataxic fever, malignant typhus fever. Pinel.

lants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

The office or function of auditor.

ority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

c of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

fts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.

e or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction. To do his master's high behest. Sir W. Scott.

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong to God " Gen. xl. 8.

ound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as…