LIST OF TECHNICAL TERMS. 295 



lig'-a-ment (Lat. ligare, to bind). 



lig'-u-la (dim. of Lat. lingua, a tongue). 



lob'-u-late (Gr. lobos, a rounded projection). 



lore (Lat. lorurn, a strap), space between beak and eye in birds. 



lum'-bar (Lat. lumbus, loin). 



mad'-re-po-rite (Lat. mater, mother, and Gr. poros, a soft stone). 



mag'-num (Lat. magnus), great. 



ma'-lar (Lat. mala, the cheek). 



Mal-pi'-ghi-an, discovered by Malpighi. 



mam'-mal (Lat. mamma, a breast). 



Mam-ma'-li-a, the animals which nourish their young with milk. 



mam'-ma-ry (Lat. mamma, a breast, a glandular organ for secreting 



milk), pertaining to the mammary glands, 

 man'-di-ble (Lat. mandere, to chew), 

 man' -tie (Lat. mantellum, a cloth or cloak), 

 ma-nu'-bri-um (Lat. from manus, hand), 

 ma'-trix, pi. matrices (Lat. matrix, mother), 

 max-il'-la, pi. maxillce (dim. of Lat. mala, a jaw), 

 max'-il-la-ry (Lat. maxilla, a little jaw), 

 max-il'-li-ped (Lat. maxilla, jaw, and pes, pedis, foot), 

 me-a'-tus (Lat. meare, to go), a passage. 

 me'-di-an (Lat. medius, middle), 

 me-di-as-ti'-num (Lat. mediastinus = medius). 

 me-dul'-la (Lat. medulla, marrow), the hindbrain : written also 



medulla oblongata. 



mes'-en-ter-y (Gr. mesos, middle, and enteron, intestine). 

 mes-o-ster'-num (Gr. mesos, middle, and sternon, breast), 

 mes-o-tho'-rax (Gr. mesos, middle, arid thorax, chest). 

 me-tab'-o-lism (Gr. metabole, change), the constructive and destruc- 

 tive changes which take place within the cell, a process known 



only through its results. 



met-a-car'-pus (Gr. meta, beyond, and Jcarpos, wrist). 

 met-a-mor'-pho-sis, pi. metamorphoses (Gr. meta, beyond, over, and 



morphe, form, shape), the structural changes which take place 



in an animal after it emerges from the egg. 

 met-a-no'-tum (Gr. meta, beyond, hind, and notos, back), 

 met-a-ster'-num (Gr. meta, beyond, and sternon, breast), 

 me-tas'-to-ma (Gr. meta, behind, and stoma, mouth), 

 met-a-tar'-sus (Gr. meta, beyond, and tarsos, tarsus), 

 met-a-tho'-rax (Gr. meta, beyond, and thorax, chest). 

 met-a-zo'-an (Gr. meta, beyond, and zoon, animal), one of the "higher" 



animals ; any animal, not a protozoan ; a many-celled animal. 



