Word Meanings - PERIOTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule. -- n.

Related words: (words related to PERIOTIC)

• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• INTERNALITY
  The state of being internal or within; interiority.
• INTERNAL
  Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. Internal angle , an interior angle. See under Interior. -- Internal gear , a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward. Syn. -- Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside. (more
• SURROUND
  To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• CAPSULE
  a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. A small saucer of clay for roasting or melting samples of ores, etc.; a scorifier. a small,
• INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE
  Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber,
• PERIOTIC
  Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule. -- n.
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• TWO-CAPSULED
  Having two distinct capsules; bicapsular.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• APHOTIC REGION
  A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate.
• TRANSREGIONATE
  Foreign. Holinshed.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• OVICAPSULE
  The outer layer of a Graafian follicle.