Word Meanings - PARIETES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• PARIETES
  The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• CRANIUM
  The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull. (more info) Gr.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• ORGANIZE
  To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this sense used chiefly in the past participle. These nobler faculties of the mind, matter
• ABDOMINALIA
  A group of cirripeds having abdominal appendages.
• ABDOMINALES
  A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.
• ORGANOTROPHIC
  Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.
• PERICRANIUM
  The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.
• ABDOMINAL
  Having abdominal fins; belonging to the Abdominales; as, abdominal fishes. Abdominal ring , a fancied ringlike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• OSTEOCRANIUM
  The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
• FATA MORGANA
  A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. (more info) looked upon as the work of a fairy of the
• INORGANIC
  Not organic; without the organs necessary for life; devoid of an organized structure; unorganized; lifeness; inanimate; as, all chemical compounds are inorganic substances. Note: The term inorganic is used to denote any one the large series
• TELEORGANIC
  Vital; as, teleorganic functions.