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Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid.

Pertaining to, or connected with, karyostenosis; as, the karyostenotic mode of nuclear division.

Long-lived. Dunglison.

The art of prolonging life.

, Melanistic.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or meliot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. --Mi*tot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.

r becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

A myotic agent.

Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.

Narcotic. -- Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.

Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

Of or pertaining to npotism. The nepotic ambition of the ruling pontiff. Milman.

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

Nicotinic.

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Capable of living without atmospheric oxygen; anaërobiotic.

Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.