| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| mycoderma | noun | One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zooloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance., A genus of microorganisms of which the acetic ferment (Mycoderma aceti), which converts alcoholic fluids into vinegar, is a representative. Cf. Mother. |
| mycologic | adjective | Alt. of Mycological |
| mycomelic | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid of the alloxan group, obtained as a honey-yellow powder. Its solutions have a gelatinous consistency. |
| mycothrix | noun | The chain of micrococci formed by the division of the micrococci in multiplication. |
| mydaleine | noun | A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. |
| mydatoxin | noun | A poisonous amido acid, C6H13NO2, separated by Brieger from decaying horseflesh. In physiological action, it is similar to curare. |
| mydriasis | noun | A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye. |
| mydriatic | adjective | Causing dilatation of the pupil., A mydriatic medicine or agent, as belladonna. |
| myeloidin | noun | A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers. |
| myeloplax | noun | One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast. |
| mylohyoid | adjective | Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve. |
| myochrome | noun | A colored albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin. |
| myocommas | plural | of Myocomma |
| myography | noun | The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology. |
| myologist | noun | One skilled in myology. |
| myomorpha | noun pl. | An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms. |
| myopathia | noun | Any affection of the muscles or muscular system. |
| myopathic | adjective | Of or pertaining to myopathia. |
| myriagram | noun | Alt. of Myriagramme |
| myriapoda | noun pl. | A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped. |
| myriopoda | noun pl. | See Myriapoda. |
| myriorama | noun | A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes. |
| myristate | noun | A salt of myristic acid. |
| myristone | noun | The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance. |
| myrmicine | adjective | Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others. |
| myrobalan | noun | Alt. of Myrobolan |
| myrobolan | noun | A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America. |
| myroxylon | noun | A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum. |
| myrtiform | adjective | Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf. |
| mystagogy | noun | The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries. |
| mysterial | adjective | Mysterious. |
| mysterize | verb t. | To make mysterious; to make a mystery of. |
| mysteries | plural | of Mystery, of Mystery |
| mysticete | noun | Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. |
| mysticism | noun | Obscurity of doctrine., The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained., The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith. |
| mystified | imp. & past participle | of Mystify |
| mythology | noun | The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths., A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks. |