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Syphilitic :: Syphilis (n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary..

Involucel :: Involucel (n.) A partial, secondary, or small involucre. See Illust. of Involucre..

Antimask :: Antimask (n.) A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask..

Homosystemic :: Homosystemic (a.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates..

Sporidium :: Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi..

Polycrotism :: Polycrotism (n.) That state or condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve, or sphygmogram, shows several secondary crests or elevations; -- contrasted with monocrotism and dicrotism..

Parastichy :: Parastichy (n.) A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spirals in a pine cone..

Anacrotism :: Anacrotism (n.) A secondary notch in the pulse curve, obtained in a sphygmographic tracing..

Paleola :: Paleola (n.) A diminutive or secondary palea; a lodicule.

Derivative :: Derivative (a.) Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word..

Axis :: Axis (n.) The primary or secondary central line of any design.

Beneficiary :: Beneficiary (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession..

Tricrotism :: Tricrotism (n.) That condition of the arterial pulse in which there is a triple beat. The pulse curve obtained in the sphygmographic tracing characteristic of tricrotism shows two secondary crests in addition to the primary.

Spikelet :: Spikelet (n.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct..

Water Gall :: Water gall () A watery appearance in the sky, accompanying the rainbow; a secondary or broken rainbow..

Scapulet :: Scapulet (n.) A secondary mouth fold developed at the base of each of the armlike lobes of the manubrium of many rhizostome medusae. See Illustration in Appendix.

Deuterozooid :: Deuterozooid (n.) One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids..

Mesozoic :: Mesozoic (a.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology..

Anagogical :: Anagogical (a.) Mystical; having a secondary spiritual meaning; as, the rest of the Sabbath, in an anagogical sense, signifies the repose of the saints in heaven; an anagogical explication..

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