Word Meanings - THECAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

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• THECAL
  Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.
• THECASPOROUS
  Having the spores in thecæ, or cases.
• 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
• ABSCESS
  A collection of pus or purulent matter in any tissue or organ of the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years
• THECA
  1. A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord. The chitinous cup which protects the hydranths of certain hydroids. The more or less cuplike calicle of a coral. The
• ABSCESSION
  A separating; removal; also, an abscess. Gauden. Barrough.
• THECATA
  See THECOPHORA
• THECAPHORE
  A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecæ. See Basigynium.
• RHAMPHOTHECA
  The horny covering of the bill of birds.
• HYPOTHECATOR
  One who hypothecates or pledges anything as security for the repayment of money borrowed.
• ATHECATA
  A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.
• HYPOTHECATION
  The act or contract by which property is hypothecated; a right which a creditor has in or to the property of his debtor, in virtue of which he may cause it to be sold and the price appropriated in payment of his debt. This is a right in the thing,
• PINACOTHECA
  A picture gallery.
• HYPOTHECATE
  To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See
• GLYPTOTHECA
  A building or room devoted to works of sculpture.
• MONOTHECAL
  Having a single loculament.
• APOTHECARY
  One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes. Note: In England an apothecary is one of a privileged class of practitioners -- a kind of sub-physician. The surgeon apothecary is the ordinary family medical attendant. One who
• POTHECARY
  An apothecary.
• GONOTHECA
  A capsule developed on certain hydroids , inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• PITHECANTHROPUS
  an animal of this genus. --Pith`e*can"thrope , n. -- Pith`e*can"thro*poid , a. (more info) 1. A hypothetical genus of primates intermediate between man and the anthropoid apes. Haeckel. 2. A genus consisting of an primate apparently
• BIBLIOTHECA
  A library.
• HYPOTHECA
  An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt. Note: It differed from pledge in regard to possession of the property subject to the obligation; pledge requiring, simple hypotheca not requiring,