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Nostrate (nos'-trat) [noster, ours]. Endemic. 



Nota (no'-tah) [noscere, to know]. A mark. N. 

 congenita, N. infantum, N. materna. See Xevus; 

 and Mark, Birth; Mark, Mother's (Illus. Diet.). 

 N. primitiva. See Streak, Primitive i Illus. Diet.). 



Notch. (See Illus. Diet. ) N., Clavicular, a depres- 

 sion at the upper end of the sternum articulating with 

 the clavicle. Syn., Incisura clavicularis. N., Cora- 

 coid, a notch in the upper border of the scapula at the 

 root of the coracoid process. Syn., Incisura cora- 

 coidea ; I. semilunaris; Xotch, Semilunar. N., 

 Frontal. See Supraorbital Foramen (Illus. Diet.). 

 N., Iliac, Greater, N., Ischiadic, Greater. See 

 A"., Ischiatic (Illus. Diet.). N., Interlobar (of the 

 liver), the notch in the ventral border of the liver 

 demarcating the right and left lobes. L., Ischiadic, 

 Lesser. See X., Lesser Sciatic (Illus. Diet.). N. 

 of the Kidney, the hilus of the kidney, porta renis. 

 N., Pterygopalatine, the pterygopalatine fissure. 

 N., Sacral, Lower, a notch in the lower part of the 

 mesal portion of the dorsal surface of the sacrum usu- 

 ally produced by imperfection of the arch of the last 

 sacral vertebra. ' Syn., Incisura sacrococcygea . N., 

 Sacral, Upper. See Hiatus sacralis (Illus. Diet.). 

 N., Sacrococcygeal, the lateral notch at the point 

 of union of the coccyx and sacrum. N., Scapular, 

 one at the back of the neck of the scapula through 

 which the supraspinous and infraspinous fossas com- 

 municate. N., Semilunar. See X., Coracoid. N., 

 Sibson's, the inward curve of the upper left border of 

 precordial dulness in acute pericardial effusion. N., 

 Tympanic. See X. of Rivinius (Illus. Diet.). 



Nothnagel's Test. See under Test. 



Nothrous (no'-thrus) [vudpoc, sluggish]. Drowsy, slow, 

 languid, torpid. 



Nothus (not h' -us) [vodoc, false]. False, spurious. 



Notifiable \no-te-fi'-ah-bl) [notificare, to make known]. 

 Applied to a disease which should be made known to 

 a board of health or other authorities. 



Notification xno-te-ji-ka'-shuri) [notificare, to make 

 known]. The act of publishing or giving official 

 notice. 



Notoglossus (no-to-glos' -us) [vurov, the back; }/.uaaa, 

 the tongue]. See Lingualis superficialis under Mus- 

 cles. 



Notophorus (iio-tof'-oi-us) [yurov, back; c-opoc, a car- 

 rying]. A monster with a dorsal pouch. 



N-rays. See under Ray. 



Nuciferous (nu-sif'-ur-us) [mix, a nut; ferre, to bear]. 

 Nut-bearing. 



Nucin (nu'-sin). See Juglone (Illus. Diet). 



""uclear. (See Illus. Diet.) N. Cap, a stainable 

 ass in the form of a cone, hollowed out internally 

 like a cap, corresponding to one pole of the nucleus 

 upon which it sits. Ger. Kernkappen. N. -plate. 

 I. The equatorial plate, formed by the chromosomes 

 during the prophases of mitosis. 2. The septum 

 hich sometimes divides the nucleus in amitotic divi- 

 on. N. Remains. See Ring-bodies. N.-sap. 



Ka ryenchi 'ma. 

 clease (nu'-kle-az). I. One of the immunizing 

 nzymes found by Emmerich and Low in cultures of 

 'acillus pyocyaneus and other organisms. 2. A pro- 

 d general term to designate any one of the 

 acteriolytic enzymes because they digest the nucleo- 

 proteids of the bacterial cells. 



Nucleid inrr'-kle-id). A compound of nucleol with an 

 oxid of some metal (iron, copper, silver, mercury, etc.). 



Nuclein. (See Illus. Diet.) N., Ferric. See Fer- 

 ratogen. N. Plates, Lilienfeld's name for blood plates 

 because they consist of a chemic combination between 

 proteid and nuclein. N. -therapy, the employment 



of nuclein from different glands and blood-serum in 

 the treatment of disease. 



Nucleinate i nu'-kh-in-at). A white soluble powder 

 used as a diagnostic in tuberculosis. Dose, 30-45 gr. 

 ^2-3 gin.). 



Nucleoalbuminuria («« - kle-o- al- bu - mm - u f -re-ah). 

 The presence in the urine of nucleoalbumin. 



Nucleoalbumose {nu-kle-o-al' -bu-moz). A name 

 given by Matthew to a substance found in the urine in 

 a case of osteomalacia and which he believed to be the 

 partly hydrated albumin of nucleoalbumin. 



Nucleofugal (nu-kle-ofu'-gul) [nucleus; fugere, to 

 flee]. Moving from a nucleus. 



Nucleohiston. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. An albuminoid 

 substance obtained from lymph and thymus gland of 

 calves; a white powder soluble in water, alkalis, and 

 mineral acids. It is used as a bactericide. 



Nucleoid. (See Illus. Diet.) 2. A term used by 

 Arnold to designate the substance in the red corpus- 

 cles formed from the original nucleus. It is finely 

 granular or fibrillar and is surrounded by a substance 

 which Arnold calls paraplasm. 



Nucleol (nu'-kle-ol). Nuclein obtained from yeast. 



Nucleoloid (nu-kW -ol-oid). Resembling a nucleolus. 



Nucleolulus (nu-kle-ol '-u-lus). See Xucleolinus (Il- 

 lus. Diet). 



Nucleon (nu' -kle-oti). See Paranucleon. 



Nucleonic (nu-kle-on'-ik). Pertaining to the nucleus. 



Nucleopetal (nu-kle-op' -et-al ) [nucleus; petere, to 

 seek]. Moving toward the nucleus. Cf. Xuc/eo/ugal. 



Nucleoproteids (nu-kle-o-pro / -te-ids). Compound pro- 

 teids which yield true nucieins on pepsin digestion, 

 and also those which, on being boiled with dilute 

 mineral acids, yield, besides proteids, xanthin bases. 

 They occur chiefly in the cell nuclei and are widely 

 diffused in the animal body, and embrace tissue-fibrin- 

 ogen (Wooldridge), cytoglobin, and preglobin (Alex. 

 Schmidt) or nucleohiston (Kossel and Lilienfeld). 



Nucleoreticulum ynu-kle-o-ret-ik' '-u-lum) [nucleus; 

 reticulum, a net]. Any network contained within a 

 nucleus. 



Nucleosin {nu'-kle-o-siri). A substance, isolated by 

 Miescher from spermatozoa of the salmon, identical 

 with thymin. 



Nucleotherapy {nu-kle-o-ther'-ap-e). See A'uclein 

 Therapy. 



Nucleotoxin (nu-kleo-toks' -in) [nucleus; to^ikov, poi- 

 son]. A toxin derived from cell nuclei ; any toxin 

 affecting the nuclei of cells. 



Nucleus. (See Illus. Diet.) N. abducens, N., 

 Abducent, N. abducentis, a gray nucleus giving 

 origin to the abducens and facial nerves, situated 

 within the faciculus teres, behind the trigeminal nu- 

 cleus, on tjie floor of the fourth ventricle. Syn., 

 Xidus abducentis. N., Accessoriovagoglosso- 

 pharyngeal, a continuous columnar tract of nerve- 

 cells embedded in the gray matter of the cinereous 

 eminence extending from the level of the calamus 

 scriptorius to that of the stria? acoustics, and from 

 which the accessory, vagus, and glossopharyngeal 

 nerves arise in succession from below upward. N., 

 Accessory. See under A", Accessoriox-agoglosso- 

 pharyngeal. N., Acoustic, N. acusticus. See N., 

 Auditory. N., Acoustic, Anterior or Ventral. 

 N. acusticus lateralis, N. acusticus superior. 

 See X., Auditory External. N., Acoustic In- 

 ferior, N., Acoustic Internal. See X., Auditory 

 Internal. N. angularis. See A", of Bechterew 

 (Illus. Diet.). Nuclei anterolateral, the nuclei 

 of the lateral column. Nuclei, Auditory, the nuclei 

 in the oblongata giving rise to the auditory nerves. 

 N., Auditory, Accessory, a group of small multi- 



