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Diæresis. See Diæresis,

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

Perspiration, or an increase of perspiration.

An abnormal prolongation of the axis of inflorescence.

The dorsal transverse, or tubercular, process of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

A form of articulation which admits of considerable motion; a complete joint; abarticulation. See Articulation.

A forcible of bones without fracture.

Bodily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

Same as Diæresis.

A small interval, less than any in actual practice, but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals.

ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.

Free excretion of urine.

A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

er cuticular layer, as in the case of serpents, lobsters, etc.; a coming out; as, the ecdysis of the pupa from its shell; exuviation.

An explicit declaration.