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into the 'external carotid,' sup- 

 plying the face and head, and 

 * internal carotid, ' which divides 

 into the interior and middle 

 cerebral arteries, supplying the 

 anterior and part of the middle 

 lobes of the brain. 



carpel, n., Icdrp'el (Gr. karpos, 

 fruit), the name of one or more 

 modified leaves forming the pistil 

 of a plant when formed of a 

 single leaf, then pistil and carpel 

 are identical; one of the parts 

 which compose the innermost of 

 the four sets of floral whorls 

 into which the complete flower 

 is separable ; also called * carp- 

 idium': carpellary, a., kdrp-el- 

 Zr-i, belonging to a carpel. 



carpoclonium, n., kdrp'o-klon't- 

 um (Gr. karpos, fruit ; klonion, 

 a small branch or shoot), in 

 bot., a free spore case in certain 

 Algae. 



carpogonium, n., Mrp'o-gon'-i-um 

 (Gr. karpos, fruit ; goneus, a 

 parent, or gune, a woman), in 

 bot. , in certain Fungi, the twisted 

 end of a branch of Mycelium, 

 forming the female organs. 



carpology, n., karp-ol'-o-ji (Gr. 

 Jcarpos, fruit ; logos, discourse), 

 the part of botany which treats 

 of the structure of fruits and 

 seeds. 



carpophaga, n. plu., kdrp-fy'-ag-a 

 (Gr. karpos, fruit ; phago, I eat), 

 fruit-eating animals, a section of 

 the Marsupialia: carpophagous, 

 &.,kdrp-of -tig-us, living on fruits. 



carpophore, n., Mrp'o-for (Gr. 

 karpos, fruit; phoreo, I carry or 

 bear), in bot., a stalk raising the 

 pistil above the whorl of the 

 stamens. 



carpos, n., kdrp'd's (Gr. karpos, 

 fruit), fruit ; in composition, 

 assumes the form carpo. 



carpus, n., Mrp'us (Gr. karpos, 

 Latinised form carpus, the wrist), 

 the wrist: carpal, a., kdrp'-dl, 

 belonging to the wrist : carpo- 

 metacarpal, a., kdrp'-o 



karp'al, pert, to the hand and 

 wrist, excluding the fingers. 



Carthamus tinctorius, kdrth'tim-us 

 tink'tor r -i'US (said to be a corrup- 

 tion of the Latinised Arabic 

 name quortum, to paint ; L. 

 tinctorius, belonging to dyeing), 

 a species of plant, Ord. Composite, 

 whose dried flowers constitute 

 saftiower or bastard saffron, which 

 yields a pink dye. 



cartilage, n., kdrt'il-ddj (L. cartil- 

 dgo, gristle), gristle ; a whitish 

 elastic substance, such as is at- 

 tached to bones, but softer than 

 bone: cartilaginous, a., kdrt'il- 

 adj'm-us, consisting of gristle in- 

 stead of bone ; hard and tough : 

 cartilagines alarum nasi, kdrt-il- 

 adj'-in-ez dl-dr'-um ndz'-i (L. cart- 

 ildgo, gristle ; did, a wing ; 

 ndsus, a nose), the cartilages of 

 the wings of the nose ; the lower 

 lateral cartilages of the nose, 

 having a peculiar curved form : 

 c. laterales nasi, lat'er-dl'ez (L. 

 later dies, adj. plu., lateral), the 

 lateral cartilages of the nose ; the 

 upper lateral cartilages of the nose, 

 situated in the upper part of the 

 projecting portion of the nose : 

 c. minores nasi, min-or'-ez (L. 

 minor es, adj. plu., lesser), the 

 lesser cartilages of the nose ; two 

 or three cartilaginous nodules 

 connected with the ascending 

 process of the upper maxilla 

 also called c. sesamoidese nasi 

 (Gr. sesamon, fruit of the sesame; 

 eidos, resemblance in allusion 

 to their shape of seeds or nodules): 

 cartilago nictitans, kdrt-tt-dg'o 

 mkt'-it-anz (L. nictitans, winking), 

 a small cartilage contained in the 

 inembrana nictitans, which see : 

 c. triticea, trit-is'-Z-a (L. trlticeus, 

 wheaten from trlticum, wheat), 

 the wheat-shaped cartilage ; a 

 small oblong cartilaginous nodule 

 connected with the lateral thyro- 

 hyoid ligaments. 



Carum, n., kdr'um (said to be so 

 called as coming from Caria, in 



