A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and fleshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name.
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Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.
The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.
The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.
Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.
All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomodaeum, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctodaeum, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.
Mesaraic.
Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.
To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.
Mashed; brewed.
Formed with meshes; netted.
Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.
Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral.
In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
A hypothetical radical formerly supposed to exist in mesityl oxide.
A salt of mesitylenic acid.
A colorless, fragrant liquid, C6H3(CH3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid.
A crystalline substance obtained from mesitylene.
See Maslin.
A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.
An earlier name for hypnosis or hypnotism, the art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. It is believed to be a state between sleep and wakefulness, in which a person is more susceptible to suggestion than when awake. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.
The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.
To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep; to hypnotize.
One who mesmerizes.
Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.
The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity; the mesovarium.
The mesoderm. The cell nucleus; mesoplast.
Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
The main bronchus of each lung.
The fold of peritoneum attached to the caecum.
The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.
Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure. Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic. Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.
The pons Varolii.
Mesocephalic.
The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.
The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon.
A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.
One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm. The middle body layer in some invertebrates. The middle layer of tissue in some vegetable structures.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.
Same as Mesodermal.
Having teeth of moderate size.
The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
The umbilical region. The mesogaster.
A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates.
Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.
An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube.
Same as Thomsonite.
A zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina, lime, and soda.
A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent.
The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct.
One of the three classes into which the fungi are divided in Brefeld's classification.
A bird having a mesomyodous larynx.
Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.
The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.
Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.
Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.
The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.
Of or pertaining to a meson.
The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.
The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.
See Glabella.
The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces.
The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast.
Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.
The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.
The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
Same as Mosasauria.
A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
See the Note under Meteorite.
A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.
A product of metabolic action.
Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid. It is an optically inactive stereoisomer of tartaric acid due to internal compensation of the rotatory activity of the two asymmetric centers; it has a plane of symmetry in the molecule.
The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.
Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c/lum.
Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.
The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
a radioactive isotope of radium (radium-228) with a half-life of 5.8 years. Also called mesothorium-1 or mesothorium I to distinguish it from a subsequent decay product, mesothorium II (actinium-228). It was discovered in 1907 by Otto Hahn as a decay product of thorium (produced by decay of thorium-232). Mesothorium-1 (radium-228) in turn produces actinium-228 (mesothorium-2) as the first product of its radioactive decay, and the actinium-228 in turn decays quickly (half-life of 6 hours) to thorium-228 (which is also called radiothorium; the thorium-228 has a half-life of 1.91 years, shorter than that of the radium-228). It was discovered and named before full recognition of the nature of isotopes of the elements, and was distinguished from other variants of radium by its half-life and mode of production and decay. It was also cheaper to prepare than other short-lived radium isotopes, and was thus sold commercially, for use, e.g. in making watch dials readable in the dark by painting the hands and hour marks with a self-luminous paint containing the radioactive substance; it is therefore often referred to (e.g. in regulatory legislation) as though distinct from radium. It was one of the isotopes believed responsible for radiation-induced diseases observed in industrial workers who painted radium on watch dials in the late 1950's and early 1960's. The primary isotope of radium (radium-226) has a half-life of 1620 years, and these isotopes with shorter half-lives proved difficult to isolate and study for the purpose of finding the cause of such diseases.
Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.
An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
A salt of mesoxalic acid.
Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
The Mesozoic age or formation.
Contempt; scorn.
Aany of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the southwestern part of North America belonging to the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods, especially the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
To supply with a mess.
To make a mess{5} of; to confuse, disorder, or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
Something badly botched or muddled.
A messenger.
A messenger.
One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.
A dog.
A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock.
The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
The state or office of the Messiah.
Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
The Messiah.
The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See Vend/miaire.
Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.
Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.
An associate in a mess.
A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Most.
The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
See Mister, a trade.
See Mestizo.
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