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13/03/2026

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ROTIFER

One of the Rotifera. See Illust. in Appendix.

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PLETHYSMOGRAPHY

The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations insize of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.

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EMBOWELER

One who takes out the bowels. [Written also emboweller.]

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SOMATOME

See Somite.

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STRANGURY

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced byspasmodic muscular contraction.

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DISCEPTATOR

One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.

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INFRASPINAL

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of thescapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

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VOLCANICITY

Quality or state of being volcanic; volcanic power.

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RACHIS

The spine; the vertebral column.

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PHILHELLENIST

A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks;particularly, one who supported them in their struggle forindependence against the Turks; a philhellene.

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TESTAMENT

A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a persondeclares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after hisdeath.

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BEDRIZZLE

To drizzle upon.