A dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences / by the late Richard D. Hoblyn.

  • Richard Hoblyn
Date:
1892
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    or arranged in two pairs, as the leaflets of mimosa unguis cati. 9. Bi-conjugate (coiijugatus, yoked together). Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice, forming two pairs of forkings. 10. Bi-cornis, cornu, a horn). A term applied to the os hyoides, which has two processes of horns; and, formerly, to muscles which have two insertions. 11. Bi-crenate (crena, a notch). Douhly crenate ; when the crenate toothings of leaves are themselves crenate. 12. Bi-cuspidati (cuspis, a spear). Having two tubercles ; as applied to the first two pairs of molars in each jaw. 13. Bi-dentate (dens, a tooth). Two-toothed; having two tooth- like processes, as applied to the fruit or achenia of bidens. 14. Bi-ennial (annus, a year). Enduring throughout two years, and then perishing ; plants which bear leaves only the first j'ear, leaves, flowers, and fruit the second year, and then die. 15. Bi-farious {\)\isi\:'ms, two-fold). A term applied to leaves arranged in two rows, not necessarily oppo- : site to each other ; in this particu- lar, the term is different from • distichous. Also, a stem or branch 1 is said to be bifariously hairy, ' when the hairs between any two ] joints appear on the front and back, I and in the adjoining internode on 1 the right and left sides. 16. Bi-foUolate (foliolum, a leaf- 1 let). When two folioles or leaflets are developed at the same point at the end of the petiole, as in zygo- 1 phyllum fabago. The term is > synonymous with conjugate. 17. Bi-forine (biforus, for biforis, - having two doors, from foris, a door). A cell containing raphides :• found in certain plants ; so called from its discharging its contents by an opening at each extremity. 18. Bifurcate (furca, a fork). Forked, as applied to the inflores- cence of stellaria, and synonymous with dicliotomous. 19. Bi-furcation (furca, a fork). The division of a vessel, or of a nerve into two bi'anches, as that of a two-pronged fork. 20. Bi-gaster {yaa-r-ftp, the belly). Two-bellied, as applied to mus- cles ; a hybrid term synonymous with M-vcntcr and di-gastricus. 21. Bi-geminate (geminatus, doubled). A term applied to a decomi^ound stem or leaf, in which the bifurcation is repeated at the ends of the petioles resulting from a first bifurcation. 22. Bi-hernius (hernia, 'ipvos, a branch). Having a scrotal hernia on each side. 23. Bi-jugotis (jugum, a pair or yoke). Bijugate. In two pairs as applied to the leaflets of a pin- nate leaf. 24. Bi-labiaie (labium, a lip). Two-lipped, as applied to certain corollas. The term labiate is generally used, and is suflaciently descriptive. 25. Bi-lamellated (lamella, a small plate of metal). Formed of two small plates, as the stigma of mimulas and other plants. 26. Bi-lateral. Two-sided, per- taining to the two sides of a central axis, as in the bilateral symmetry of animals. 27. Bi-lohatc (lobus, a lobe). Having two lobes resembling the tips of ears, as applied to the leaves of Bauhinia, &c. 28. Bi-locular (loculus, a cell). Two-celled ; divided into two cells ; a term applied, in botany, to the anther, to certain capsules, &c. 29. Bi-mana (manus, a hand). Two-handed, as characteristic of
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