Definition of organ

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Organ (n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc..

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Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps..
Tentaculocyst :: Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Krumhorn :: Krumhorn (a.) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona.
Strepsipter :: Strepitores (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs..
Protandric :: Protandric (a.) Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life..
Debilitant :: Debilitant (a.) Diminishing the energy of organs; reducing excitement; as, a debilitant drug..
Organzine :: Organzine (n.) A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture, that is, silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength..
Vacuole :: Vacuole (n.) A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm..
Retrogressive :: Retrogressive (a.) Passing from a higher to a lower condition; declining from a more perfect state of organization; regressive.
Leucin :: Leucin (n.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid..
Idorgan :: Idorgan (n.) A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon..
Hexicology :: Hexicology (n.) The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally..
Action :: Action (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice..
Plasma :: Plasma (n.) Unorganized material; elementary matter.
Morphology :: Morphology (n.) That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology..
Independent :: Independent (n.) One who believes that an organized Christian church is complete in itself, competent to self-government, and independent of all ecclesiastical authority..
Regular :: Regular (a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops..
Bacillus :: Bacillus (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism..
Anisomerous :: Anisomerous (a.) Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens..
Neurocord :: Neurocord (n.) A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm..
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