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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.

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue. Battalions debouching on the plain. Prescott.

ng; act of settling or terminating, as a controversy, by giving judgment on the matter at issue; determination, as of a question or doubt; settlement; conclusion. The decision of some dispute. Atterbury.

final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.

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.

ed further, on the allegation that such evidence is not sufficient in law to maintain the issue, and a reference to the court to determine the point. Bouvier.

The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.

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

k, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

That which is descended; descendants; issue. If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe. Milton.

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

e from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.

Of uncertain issue or event. We . . . have sustained one day in doubtful fight. Milton. The strife between the two principles had been long, fierce, and doubtful. Macaulay.

Uncertainty of event or issue. Bacon.