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  • English Word Sarcobasis Definition A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.
  • English Word Sarcoblast Definition A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.
  • English Word Sarcocarp Definition The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.
  • English Word Sarcocele Definition Any solid tumor of the testicle.
  • English Word Sarcocol Definition Alt. of Sarcocolla
  • English Word Sarcocolla Definition A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers.
  • English Word Sarcode Definition A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm.
  • English Word Sarcoderm Definition Alt. of sarcoderma
  • English Word sarcoderma Definition A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.
  • English Word sarcoderma Definition A sarcocarp.
  • English Word Sarcodic Definition Of or pertaining to sarcode.
  • English Word Sarcoid Definition Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode.
  • English Word Sarcolactic Definition Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic.
  • English Word Sarcolemma Definition The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
  • English Word Sarcoline Definition Flesh-colored.
  • English Word Sarcologic Definition Alt. of Sarcological
  • English Word Sarcological Definition Of or pertaining to sarcology.
  • English Word Sarcology Definition That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology.
  • English Word Sarcoma Definition A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance.
  • English Word sarcomas Definition of Sarcoma
  • English Word Sarcomata Definition of Sarcoma
  • English Word Sarcomatous Definition Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma.
  • English Word Sarcophaga Definition A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
  • English Word Sarcophaga Definition A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies.
  • English Word Sarcophagan Definition Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
  • English Word Sarcophagan Definition Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
  • English Word Sarcophagi Definition of Sarcophagus
  • English Word Sarcophagous Definition Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous.
  • English Word Sarcophagus Definition A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
  • English Word Sarcophagus Definition A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.