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Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance.

into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. Bacon.

The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line dra…

Pertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella. -- n.

t through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted. Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be trie…

Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.

A part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb. We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Rom. xii. 4.

A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] Addison.

A piace where animals are kept and trained.

A principle governing the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered by Gregor J. Mendel (Austrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given g…

The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

ne of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

ims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.

A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson. B. G. Wilder.

A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.

The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless ge…

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

One of the component segments of the body of an animal.