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The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

One of the Echinodermata.

Relating or belonging to the echinoderms.

imal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

Of or relating to the ectoderm.

The path by which electricity is conveyed into or from a solution or other conducting medium; esp., the ends of the wires or conductors, leading from source of electricity, and terminating in the medium traversed by the current.

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Of or pertaining to the endoderm.

A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.

To clear of knots; to make clear. [Obs.] Cockeram.

See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

Relating to the entoderm.

A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, but naturally arising from it.

The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode.

To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

Eaten away; gnawed; irregular, as if eaten or worn away.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.