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Same as Peristome.

Turning around; rotatory; revolving; as, a peristrephic painting (of a panorama).

in the former sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Roman dwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.

The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart. It is perceptible only in the dying.

Skilled. [Obs.]

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.

Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

Same as Peritoneum.

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

rning back, surrounds the viscera, forming a closed, or nearly closed, sac. [Written also peritonæum.]

Inflammation of the peritoneum.

Surrounding the tracheæ.

That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

A division of ciliated Infusoria having a circle of cilia around the oral disk and sometimes another around the body. It includes the vorticellas. See Vorticella.

The wheel which, together with the axle, forms the axis in peritrochio, which see under Axis.

Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

Peritropal.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

Surrounding the uterus.

Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.