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curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph.

d over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram.

Relating to, or produced by, a sphygmograph; as, a sphygmographic tracing.

A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight.

A description of the ligaments; syndesmology.

A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station.

Caloric; heat; regarded as a material but imponderable substance.

Relating to heat, or to the production of heat; producing heat; thermogenous; as, the thermogenic tissues.

Producing heat; thermogenic.

The trace or record made by means of a thermograph.

An instrument for automatically recording indications of the variation of temperature.

Any process of writing involving the use of heat.

The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.] Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow, an attorney's son. Thackeray.

To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] Fielding.

pancreas contains but little ready-made ferment, though there is present in it a body, zymogen, which gives birth to the ferment. Foster.

One of a physiological group of globular bacteria which produces fermentations of diverse nature; -- distinguished from pathogene.

Pertaining to, or formed by, a zymogene.

(Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

t elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing.