CIN 



85 cm 



cinereous, a., sin-er'-e'-us, also 

 cineritious, a., singer -ish'-us (L. 

 cmgrdceus, and ciner$us, resem- 

 bling ashes, ash-coloured from 

 cinis, ashes, cineris, of ashes), 

 resembling ashes in colour, 

 appearance, or consistence ; in 

 anat., applied to the outer or 

 cortical substance of the brain, 

 which has a grey colour. 



Cinnamodendron, n., sin'nam-6- 

 den'dron (Gr. kinnamomdn, Ar. 

 kinamon, cinnamon; Gr.dendron, 

 a tree), a genus of trees, Ord. 

 Canellacese : Cinnamodendron 

 corticosum, kdrt'ik-oz'um (L. 

 corticosus, full of bark from 

 cortex, bark, corticis, of bark), a 

 tree of the "West Indies which 

 yields an aromatic bark : Cin- 

 namomum, n., sin^ndm-omf-um, 

 a genus of plants, Ord. Lauracese : 

 Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, zi- 

 lan'tk'Um (from Zeylan, Ceylon), 

 the true cinnamon tree of com- 

 merce, cultivated in Ceylon : C. 

 cassia, hashed (see 'cassia'), the 

 chief source of Cassia lignea, or 

 cassia bark of commerce. 



circinate, a. r serf sin- at (L. circino, 

 I turn round; circindtum, to turn 

 round from circmus, a pair of 

 compasses), in bot. , rolled inwards 

 from the summit towards the 

 base like a crosier, as the young 

 fronds of ferns : circinal, a., serf 

 sin-al, rolled in spirally with the 

 summit in the centre. 



circulus articuli vasculosus, serk r - 

 ul-us drt'ikf-uli vask'-ul-oMs (L. 

 circulus, a circle ; articulus, a 

 joint, articuli, of a joint ; vascul- 

 osus, full of vessels, as veins and 

 arteries), the vascular circle of a 

 joint ; a narrow vascular border 

 around an articular cartilage. 



circulus major, serk'ul-us mddf-dr 

 (L. circulus, a circle ; major, 

 greater), the greater circle ; a 

 vascular ring in the ciliary muscle 

 of the iris : circulus minor, min'> 

 tir (L. minor, less or lesser), a 

 second and lesser circle of anas- 



tomosis ending in small veins : 

 c. tonsillaris, ton'sil-ldrfis (L. 

 tonsilldris, belonging to the ton- 

 sils from tonsilis, shorn, cut, or 

 clipped), the tonsillar circle ; a 

 kind of plexus formed by some 

 branches of the glosso-pharyngeal 

 nerve around the tonsil : c. ven- 

 osus, veri'dz'us (L. venosus, full 

 of veins from vena, a vein), an 

 anastomatic venous circle sur- 

 rounding the base of the nipple. 



circumduction, n., serk'um-duk'' 

 shun(L. circum, around -,ductum, 

 to lead), a slight circular motion 

 which the head of a long bone 

 describes in its socket, caused by 

 the movement of the extremity 

 of a limb describing a large circle 

 on a plane said of the movements 

 of the shoulder and hip-joints. 



circumferential, a., serk'-um-fer* 

 en'shdl (L. circum, around iferens, 

 carrying, ferentis, of carrying), 

 pert, to the circumference ; n., a 

 marginal fibro- cartilage attached 

 around the lip of the cotyloid 

 cavity as seen in the hip-joint. 



circumflexus, n., serk'-um-Jiek^us 

 (L. circum, around ;flexus, bent), 

 bent circularly ; circumflex ; 

 applied to certain vessels and 

 nerves from their course : circ- 

 umflexus palati, pal-at'-i (L. 

 paldtus, the palate, palati, of the 

 palate), a broad, thin, ribbon- 

 like muscle of the palate. 



circumscissile, a., serMum-sfa'-il 

 (L. circum, around ; scissum, to 

 cut), cut round in a circular 

 manner, as in seed vessels open- 

 ing by a lid. 



circumscription, n., serk'-um,' 

 skrip'shun (L. circum, around ; 

 scriptus, written), limitation ; the 

 periphery or margin of a leaf or 

 other organ. 



Cirrhipedia or Cirripedia, n. plu. , 

 sirtri'ped'i'd (L. cirrus, F. cirrhe, 

 a lock, a curl ; p$des, feet), a 

 Sub-class of Crustacea, having 

 curled, jointed feet: also, in same 

 sense, Cirrhopoda or Cirropoda, 



