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Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking. Milman.

An individual cell, differing greatly from its neighbours in regard to size, structure, or contents.

An idolater. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A breaker of idols; an iconoclast.

Not elastic.

Want of elasticity.

The interval or space between two pilasters. Elmes.

A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.

One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.

See Leucoplast.

An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.

A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.

Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.

The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.

sisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

ing only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

The cell nucleus; mesoplast.

Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.

The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast. Agassix.