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Obese. — Unnaturally enlarged and distended, as 

 if from disease or too much food ; fat ; fleshy ; 

 (L. ohesus, oh, esum, to eat.) 



Oblate. — Flattened ; this term is applied to a 

 spheroid of which the diameter is shortened at 

 two opposite ends. (L. oh, and latus, broad.) 



Oblique. — Eunning sideways ; when the longi- 

 tudinal line is cut through at acute angles ; 

 slanting ; neither perpendicular nor parallel. 

 (L. ohliquus, slanting.) 



Oblique tergals. — Short muscles connecting the 

 edges of the tergites of the abdomen. (L. 

 ohliquxts, and terguni, the hinder part.) 



Oblique sternals. — Very short muscles connecting 

 theadjacentedge of the sternites of the abdomen. 

 (L. ohliquus, and from sternum, the breast-bone.) 



Obliterate. — When the borders of spots, puncta, 

 granules, etc., fade into the general ground- 

 colour, and when elevations and depressions, etc., 

 are so little raised or sunk from the surface as 

 to be almost erased. (L. oh, and litera, a letter.) 



Oblongum.— Oblong. (L.) 



Oblong. — Having the longitudinal diameter more 

 than twice the length of the transverse diameter ; 

 longer than broad. (L. ohlongus.) 



Obovate, Obovatus. — Reversed egg-shaped ; in- 

 versely ovate. (L. oh, and ovum, an egg.) 



Obscure. — Dark ; abstruse ; remote from observa- 

 tion ; indistinct. (L. ohscurus, from Skt. sku, 

 to cover.) 



