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species which supplies the well- 

 known mahogany wood. 



swimmerets, n. plu., swim'-rnVr-Vts 

 (from Eng. swim), the limbs of 

 the Crustacese which are adapted 

 for swimming. 



syconus, n., siKtin'fa (Gr. suk8n, 

 a fig), in hot. , a multiple succul- 

 ent hollow fruit, as in the fig ; a 

 fruit, such as the fig, which en- 

 closes the fruits: sycosis, n., 

 sik-oz'is, a parasitic disease of the 

 hair follicles of the chin or upper 

 lip. 



sympathy, n., sim'path-% (Gr. 

 sumpatlieia, conformity of feeling 

 from sun, together ; pathos, 

 suffering), that influence or cor- 

 respondence which arises in one 

 part of the body from the exist- 

 ence of disease or irritation in 

 another part, as the headache of 

 indigestion, the pain in the right 

 shoulder in disease of the liver, 

 or the affection of one eye from 

 disease of the other: sympathetic, 

 a., simlpath'Zt'ik, dependent on 

 sympathy or irritation ; in anat. , 

 applied to a system of nerves 

 consisting of one or more ganglia, 

 or a series of them ; the sympath- 

 etic nerves are, in man, chiefly 

 disposed in plexuses, as the car- 

 diac, the solar, and the hypo- 

 gastric, etc. 



Bymphysis, n., simf-iS'is (Gr. 

 sumphusis, a growing together 

 from sun, together \phuo, I grow), 

 in anat., the union of bones by 

 an intervening cartilage, so as to 

 form an immovable joint, or only 

 slightly movable. 



Symplocarpus, K..,simf'plo-~kdrp'us 

 (Gr. sumploke, a connection, an 

 intertwining; karpos, fruit), a 

 curious genus of plants, Ord. 

 Aracese, bearing large handsome 

 leaves : Symplocarpus fcetidus, 

 fet'-id-us (L. fcetidus, stinking), 

 the skunk-cabbage, has a very 

 disagreeable odour, the rhizomes 

 and seeds have been employed as 

 antispasmodics. 



Symplocos, n., sim'-pldk-tis (Gr. 

 sumploke, a connection), a genus 

 of plants, Ord. Styracacese, some 

 of whose species are used as dyes, 

 others as tea : Symploceae, n. 

 plu., sim-plos'-fre, a Sub -order or 

 tribe. 



sympodium, n., stm-pod'-i-urn (Gr. 

 sun, together; pous, a foot, podes, 

 feet), in anat., a monster foetus 

 having its feet grown together ; 

 in bot., in forked branching, 

 when the primary axis consists of 

 the bases of consecutive bifurca- 

 tions or branchings : also called 

 pseudaxis, n., sud-ahs'-is (Gr. 

 pseudes, false, and axis), a false 

 axis. 



symptom, n., sim'ttim (Gr. sump- 

 toma, what happens with another 

 thing from Sim, together ; ptoma, 

 a fall), a token or mark which 

 indicates disease, and specifically 

 the kind of disease. NOTE. 

 Strictly speaking, a symptom is 

 evidence of disease appreciable 

 only by the patient (subjective), 

 in contradistinction to signs or 

 objective evidence. 



synacme, n., sin-ak'me (Gr. sun- 

 akmdzo, I flourish at the same 

 time with another), in bot., the 

 condition of stamens and pistils 

 when they reach maturity at the 

 same time. 



Synandrae, n. plu., sin-and'-re (Gr. 

 sun, together ; aner, a male, 

 andros, of a male), in bot., a div- 

 ision of gamopetalous Dicotyled- 

 ons, having the carpels unequal 

 in number to the parts of the 

 other whorls, while the stamens 

 are synantherous. 



SynanthersB, n. plu., stn-antli'-Zr-e 

 (Gr. sun, together, with ; anth- 

 eros, flowery from anthos, a 

 flower), in bot., a name sometimes 

 given to the Order of plants 

 Composite : synantherous, a., 

 sin-anth^er-us, having anthers 

 united so as to form a tube round 

 the style. 



synanthous, a., sin-anth'-tis (Gr. 



