| encranial | 1. Within the cranium. 2. Relating to the endocranium. Synonym: encranial, entocranial. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| encranius | In conjoined twins, a form of foetal inclusion in which the smaller parasite lies partly or wholly within the cranial cavity of the larger autosite. Origin: G. En, in, + kranion, skull (05 Mar 2000) |
| encrinital | <paleontology> Relating to encrinites; containing encrinites, as certain kinds of limestone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| encrinite | <paleontology> A fossil crinoid, especially. One belonging to, or resembling, the genus Encrinus. Sometimes used in a general sense for any crinoid. Origin: Gr. In + a lily: cf. F. Encrinite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| encrinitical | <paleontology> Pertaining to encrinites; encrinal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| encrinoidea | <zoology> That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk. Synonym: Brachiata and Articulata. Origin: NL. See Encrinus and -oid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| encrinus | Origin: NL. See Encrinite. <paleontology> A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| encu | Acronym for equivalent normal child unit, an amount of information from any source (linkage analysis, parental, and collateral phenotypes, biochemistry of the carrier state, etc.) that will have the same impact on the probability as one usual progeny does that a consultand is a carrier for an autosomal dominant trait; e.g., each normal child contributes one encu. Compare: ensu. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encu method | A means of simplifying the calculation of risk in genetic counseling for autosomal dominant traits by converting all pertinent evidence into encu units. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encyclopaedia | Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field or subject. (12 Dec 1998) |
| encysted | Encapsulated by a membranous bag. Origin: G. Kystis, bladder (05 Mar 2000) |
| encysted calculus | A urinary calculus enclosed in a sac developed from the wall of the bladder. Synonym: pocketed calculus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encysted pleurisy | A form of serofibrinous pleurisy, in which adhesions occur at various points, circumscribing the serous effusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| encystment | 1. <biology> A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc. The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal. 2. <zoology> A process by which many internal parasites, especially. In their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| end | 1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part. "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." (Eccl. Vii. 8) 2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. "My guilt be on my head, and there an end." (Shak) "O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!" (Shak) 3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. "Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end." (Pope) "Confound your hidden falsehood, and award either of you to be the other's end." (Shak) "I shall see an end of him." (Shak) 4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labour for private or public ends. "Losing her, the end of living lose." (Dryden) "When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end." (Coleridge) 5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. "I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." (Shak) 6. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. An end. On end; upright; erect; endways. To the end; continuously. <anatomy> End bulb, one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play. Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth. In the end, finally. On end, upright; erect. To the end, in order. To make both ends meet, to live within one's income. To put an end to, to destroy. Origin: OE. & AS. Ende; akin to OS. Endi, D. Einde, eind, OHG. Enti, G. Ende, Icel. Endir, endi, Sw. Ande, Dan. Ende, Goth. Andeis, Skr. Anta. Cf. Ante-, Anti-, Answer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |