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dom, comprising insects, centi- 

 peds, spiders, and crustaceans, 

 which are characterised by 

 the possession of jointed 

 bodies or jointed limbs ; the 

 Arthropoda, which is the term 

 now more usually employed : 

 articulated, a., drt'lk'-ul-dt-U, 

 jointed ; having parts separating 

 easily at some point : articulo 

 morti?, drt'ikf'ut'6 mort'-.is (L. 

 articulo, in a joint, in point or 

 moment ; mors, death, mortis, 

 of death), at the point of death ; 

 about to die. 



Artiodactyla, n. plu., drtfi-o-dak' 

 til- a (Gr. artios, exactly fitted, 

 even ; daktulos, a finger or toe), 

 a division of the hoofed quadru- 

 peds, in which each foot has an 

 even number of toes, as two or 

 four. 



Artocarpese, n. plu., drt'o-kdrp'e-e 

 (Gr. artos, bread; karpos, fruit), 

 a sub-order of the. Ord. Moracese : 

 Artocarpus, n., a genus of trees, 

 producing the breadrfruit, and 

 flowers in dense heads: Artocarpus 

 incisa, m-slz'-a (L. incisus, notch- 

 ed, indented), the well-known 

 bread-fruit tree, which furnishes an 

 abundant supply of food in trop- 

 ical countries, besides furnishing 

 many other materials for domestic 

 use : A. integrifolia, m-teg'-ri- 

 fdl'i'O, (L. integrifolia, entire 

 leaved from integer, entire, un- 

 divided; folium, a leaf), the Jack 

 or Jaca tree, the fruit of which 

 attains a large size, weighing 

 sometimes 30 Ibs., but is inferior 

 in quality to the bread-fruit so 

 called from its having entire or 

 undivided leaves. 



Arum, n., ar f -um (L. drum ; Gr. 

 dron, supposed to be an ancient 

 Egyptian word, the plant wake- 

 robin), a genus of plants, Ord. 

 Aracese : Arum maculatum, 

 mdkf-ul-dt''Um (L. maculatum, 

 stained, spotted), the plant cuc- 

 koo-pint or wakerobin ; the species 

 of Arum with spotted leaves, and 



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poisonous, but yet from the 

 rhizome of which Portland sago 

 is prepared : A. dracunculus, 

 drdk-unk'-ul'US (L. dracunculus, 

 a small serpent), the plant drag- 

 on's wort, and many-leaved 

 Arum, which is extremely acri- 

 monious : A. esculentum, &s&- 

 ul-en&um (L. esculentum, fit for 

 eating), a species of Arum used as 

 a pot herb in the West Indies. 

 aryteno, ar'it-en'o (Gr. arutaina, 

 a pitcher in animals, the open- 

 ing of the larynx with the aryt- 

 enoid cartilages, bearing a 

 resemblance to a pitcher with a 

 spout), denoting connection with 

 the arytenoid cartilages: aryten- 

 o - epiglottidean, a., ep'-i-glot- 

 tid^e-dn (Gr. epiglottis, a little 

 tongue from epi, upon; glottis, 

 the mouthpiece of a wind instru- 

 ment, glottidos, of the mouthpiece 

 of a wind instrument from 

 glotta, the tongue), applied to 

 the ligamentous and muscular 

 fibres enclosed by a fold of 

 mucous membrane which are 

 stretched between the sides of 

 the epiglottis and the apex of the 

 arytenoid cartilages : aryteno- 

 epiglottideus, ep'-i-glot-tid'-e-us, 

 'superior' and 'inferior, ' designat- 

 ing delicate muscular fasciculi, 

 the former rising from the apex of 

 the arytenoid cartilage, and the 

 latter from the arytenoid carti- 

 lage, just above the attachment 

 of the superior vocal cord : 

 arytenoid, a., ar'-it-en'-oyd (Gr. 

 eidos, resemblance), resembling 

 the mouth of a pitcher : arytenoid 

 cartilages, two cartilages, each 

 having a pyramidal form, situated 

 at the upp'er border of the cricoid 

 cartilage, at the back of the lar- 

 ynx : arytenoid glands, the 

 muciparous glands found along 

 the posterior margin of the 

 aryteno - epiglottidean fold, in 

 front of the aryteno-cartilages : 

 arytenoideus, n., ar'4t-en'dyd'* 

 e>us t applied to a single muscle 



