Skip to main content
Search Section
Skip alphabetical navigation menu.

Browse Alphabetically

  • English Word Ectoblast Definition The outer envelope of a cell; the cell wall.
  • English Word Ectobronchia Definition of Ectobronchium
  • English Word Ectobronchium Definition One of the dorsal branches of the main bronchi in the lungs of birds.
  • English Word Ectocuneriform Definition Alt. of Ectocuniform
  • English Word Ectocuniform Definition One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.
  • English Word Ectocyst Definition The outside covering of the Bryozoa.
  • English Word Ectoderm Definition The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.
  • English Word Ectoderm Definition The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.
  • English Word Ectodermal Definition Alt. of Ectodermic
  • English Word Ectodermic Definition Of or relating to the ectoderm.
  • English Word Ectolecithal Definition Having the food yolk, at the commencement of segmentation, in a peripheral position, and the cleavage process confined to the center of the egg; as, ectolecithal ova.
  • English Word Ectomere Definition The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
  • English Word Ectoparasite Definition Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.
  • English Word Ectopia Definition A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.
  • English Word Ectopic Definition Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.
  • English Word Ectoplasm Definition The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
  • English Word Ectoplasm Definition The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell.
  • English Word Ectoplasm Definition The ectosarc of protozoan.
  • English Word Ectoplastic Definition Pertaining to, or composed of, ectoplasm.
  • English Word Ectoprocta Definition An order of Bryozoa in which the anus lies outside the circle of tentacles.
  • English Word Ectopy Definition Same as Ectopia.
  • English Word Ectorganism Definition An external parasitic organism.
  • English Word Ectosarc Definition The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.
  • English Word Ectosteal Definition Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
  • English Word Ectostosis Definition A process of bone formation in which ossification takes place in the perichondrium and either surrounds or gradually replaces the cartilage.
  • English Word Ectozoa Definition of Ectozoon
  • English Word Ectozoic Definition See Epizoic.
  • English Word Ectozoon Definition See Epizoon.
  • English Word Ectropion Definition An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.
  • English Word Ectropium Definition Same as Ectropion.