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perties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.

A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exit in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.

Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.

Like the dartos; dartoic; as, dartoid tissue.

A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver.

The opposition of nutrition; the failure of nutrition causing the breaking down of tissue.

sage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

lection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison.

A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

igher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.

tic limit the distortion is directly proportional to the stress producing it. -- Elastic tissue (Anat.), a variety of connective tissue consisting of a network of slender and very elastic fibers which are but slightly affected by acids or alkalies. -- Gum elastic, caoutchouc.

ogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

tial parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.

A swelling produced by gas or air diffused in the cellular tissue. Emphysema of the lungs, Pulmonary emphysema (Med.), a common disease of the lungs in which the air cells are distended and their partition walls ruptured by an abnormal pressure of the air contained in them.

The intensely hard calcified tissue entering into the composition of teeth. It merely covers the exposed parts of the teeth of man, but in many animals is intermixed in various ways with the dentine and cement. Enamel painting, painting with enamel colors upon a ground of metal, porcelain, or the like, the colors being…

The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues, particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.