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A version to food; refusal to take nourishment. [Written also sitiophobia.]

uct of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

rtain Discophora in a state of development succeeding the scyphistoma. The body of the strobila becomes elongated, and subdivides transversely into a series of lobate segments which eventually become ephyræ, or young medusæ.

Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone.

The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian.

Same as Strobila.

Shaped like a strobile.

Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits.

The lant, or sand eel.

A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]

A stout twilled silk used for dresses.

A book of the Apocrypha.

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

An extinct order of arthropods comprising the trilobites.

Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment.

Of, pertaining to or containing, trilobites; as, trilobitic rocks.

A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

eauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

The positive or negative stimulus exerted by oxygen on aërobic and anaërobic bacteria. -- A`ër*o*tac"tic (#), a.