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Of or pertaining to the omosternum.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens. -- Oph*thal`mo*scop"ic, a.

Examination of the eye with the ophthalmoscope.

structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion.

Osmose.

Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.

Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.

Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest. [Obs.] Fabyan.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

The siphon of a phragmocone.

irs, or other párts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

Same as Jamesonite.

The quality or state of being plumose.

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.

The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.