Definition of external

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External (a.) Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surface of a body..

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Ear :: Ear (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.
Formalist :: Formalist (n.) One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit of religion..
Subjective :: Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states..
Sensation :: Sensation (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body..
Marsupialia :: Marsupialia (n. pl.) A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata..
Opodeldoc :: Opodeldoc (n.) A kind of plaster, said to have been invented by Mindererus, -- used for external injuries..
Pudendum :: Pudendum (n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva..
Malebranchism :: Malebranchism (n.) The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God..
Chancroid :: Chancroid (n.) A venereal sore, resembling a chancre in its seat and some external characters, but differing from it in being the starting point of a purely local process and never of a systemic disease; -- called also soft chancre..
Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into
Eared :: Eared (a.) Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears.
Testa :: Testa (n.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals.
Apparel :: Apparel (n.) External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
Stethoscope :: Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer..
Bull''s-nose :: Bull's-nose (n.) An external angle when obtuse or rounded.
Pericranium :: Pericranium (n.) The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
Peripheral :: Peripheral (a.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system..
Epimeron :: Epimeron (n.) In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage.
Making :: Making (n.) External appearance; from.
Afferent :: Afferent (a.) Bearing or conducting inwards to a part or organ; -- opposed to efferent; as, afferent vessels; afferent nerves, which convey sensations from the external organs to the brain..
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