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Cilia :: Cilia (n. pl.) Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs..

Histological :: Histological (a.) Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms..

Physemaria :: Physemaria (n. pl.) A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies..

Excitability :: Excitability (n.) The property manifested by living organisms, and the elements and tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to the action of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability..

Xenogenesis :: Xenogenesis (n.) The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.

Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers..

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..

Sustentative :: Sustentation (n.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.

Unspecialized :: Unspecialized (a.) Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism..

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there..

Spontaneity :: Spontaneity (n.) The tendency to undergo change, characteristic of both animal and vegetable organisms, and not restrained or cheked by the environment..

Life :: Life (n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government..

Metensomatosis :: Metensomatosis (n.) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

Function :: Function (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body..

Panspermy :: Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.

Biotaxy :: Biotaxy (n.) The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

Organoleptic :: Organoleptic (a.) Making an impression upon an organ; plastic; -- said of the effect or impression produced by any substance on the organs of touch, taste, or smell, and also on the organism as a whole..

Volvox :: Volvox (n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule..

Microform :: Microform (n.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.

Cytula :: Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed..

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