a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to amitosis; karyostenotic; -- opposed to mitotic. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Gr. 'ana` back + ptwtiko`s belonging to case. ] Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aptotum, Gr. &unr_; indeclinable; 'a priv. + &unr_; fallen, declined, &unr_; to fall. ] (Gram.) A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, aptotes; uninflected; as, aptotic languages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of herbs and subshrubs: African daisy.
Syn. -- genus Arctotis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Aristotle; Aristotelian. Aristotelean logic [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a small genus of shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand and West South America.
Syn. -- genus Aristotelia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher (384-322 b. c.). -- n. A follower of Aristotle; a Peripatetic. See Peripatetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The philosophy of Aristotle, otherwise called the Peripatetic philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to Aristotle or to his philosophy. “Aristotelic usage.” Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) The five united jaws and accessory ossicles of certain sea urchins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; best + -type. ] (Photog.) Orig., a printing-out process using paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin; now, any such process using silver salts in either collodion or gelatin; also, a print so made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Art + type. ] A kind of autotype. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. Artotyritae, pl., fr. Gr. &unr_; bread + &unr_; cheese. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [ Gen. iv. 3, 4. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; not falling together; 'a priv. + &unr_; to fall together; &unr_; with + &unr_; to fall. Cf. Symptom. ] (Math.) A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to autotelism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Auto- + theism. ] 1. The doctrine of God's self-existence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deification of one's self; self-worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to self-worship. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to autotomy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. cause a body part to undergo autotomy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw or a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖ n. [ NL. See Auto-, and Toxæmia. ] (Physiol.) Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Auto- + toxic. ] (Med.) Pertaining to, or causing, autotoxæmia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Auto- + toxication. ] (Physiol.) Same as Auto-intoxication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Auto- + transformer. ] (Elec.) A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.
Syn. -- autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism. [ WordNet 1.5 + PJC ]

a. [ Auto- + trophic. ] (Plant Physiol.) Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to an autotroph. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Auto- + Gr. &unr_; to turn. ] (Plant Physiol.) The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Auto- + -type: cf. F. autotype. ] 1. A facsimile. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + typography. ] A process resembling “nature printing, ” by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or process of making autotypes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; thunder + &unr_; beast. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; hair + &unr_; arrangement. ] (Zool.) The arrangement of bristles on an insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cholecystis + Gr. te`mnein to cut. ] (Surg.) The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the closed spore-bearing structure of some fungi (especially Aspergillaceae and Eurysiphaceae) from which spores are released only by decay or disintegration; -- called also cleistocarp.
Syn. -- cleistocarp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Costa + Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to cut. ] An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to cut: cf. F. cystotome. ] (Surg.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to cut: cf. F. cystotomie. ] The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biology) The movement of cells toward or away from other cells, as a result of some stimulation, such as chemical signals transmitted and received by the cells. [ PJC ]

n. (Biology) A branch of taxonomy which uses the characteristics of cellular structures, such as somatic chromosomes, to classify organisms. [ PJC ]

-- cy`to*tax*on"o*mist, n. -- cy`to*tax`o*nom"ic, a. -- cy`to*tax`o*nom"ic*al*ly, adv. [PJC]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; di- = di`s- twice + &unr_; falling, fr. &unr_; to fall: cf. F. diptote. ] (Gram.) A noun which has only two cases. Andrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ento- + thorax. ] (Zoöl.) See Endothorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ent- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the ear. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the interior of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. factotums [ L., do everything; facere to do + totus all : cf. F. factotum. See Fact, and Total. ] A person employed to do all kinds of work or business; a person with many different responsibilities. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; carved + &unr_; case, box. ] A building or room devoted to works of sculpture. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. (Zool.) Same as Hematotherma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Warm-blooded; homoiothermal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Hemothorax. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma blood + ky`tos hollow vessel + tri`bein to rub, grind.] (Physiol.) A breaking up of the blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or haemocytolysis. [1913 Webster]