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d which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc.

The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.

Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.

Having no capsule.

scoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

trid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.

he pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks. The capsule is bilocular and birostrated. Ed. Encyc.

An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

eil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

Of or pertaining to a capsule; having the nature of a capsula; hollow and fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box.

Inflammation of a capsule, as that of the crystalline lens.

The incision of a capsule, esp. of that of the crystalline lens, as in a cataract operation.