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- English Word Triceps Definition A muscle having three heads; specif., the great extensor of the forearm, arising by three heads and inserted into the olecranon at the elbow.
- English Word Trichiasis Definition A disease of the eye, in which the eyelashes, being turned in upon the eyeball, produce constant irritation by the motion of the lids.
- English Word Trichina Definition A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
- English Word Trichinae Definition of Trichina
- English Word Trichiniasis Definition Trichinosis.
- English Word Trichinize Definition To render trichinous; to affect with trichinae; -- chiefly used in the past participle; as, trichinized pork.
- English Word Trichinoscope Definition An apparatus for the detection of trichinae in the flesh of animals, as of swine.
- English Word Trichinosis Definition The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
- English Word Trichinous Definition Of or pertaining to trichinae or trichinosis; affected with, or containing, trichinae; as, trichinous meat.
- English Word Trichite Definition A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.
- English Word Trichite Definition A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges.
- English Word Trichiuriform Definition Like or pertaining to the genus Trichiurus or family Trichiuridae, comprising the scabbard fishes and hairtails.
- English Word Trichiuroid Definition Of, like, or pertaining to, Trichiurus.
- English Word Trichiurus Definition A genus of fishes comprising the hairtails. See Hairtail.
- English Word Trichloride Definition A chloride having three atoms of chlorine in the molecule.
- English Word Trichobranchia Definition The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.
- English Word Trichocyst Definition A lasso cell.
- English Word Trichogyne Definition The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.
- English Word Trichomanes Definition Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States.
- English Word Trichomatose Definition Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.
- English Word Trichome Definition A hair on the surface of leaf or stem, or any modification of a hair, as a minute scale, or star, or gland. The sporangia of ferns are believed to be of the nature of trichomes.
- English Word Trichophore Definition The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.
- English Word Trichophore Definition One of the saclike organs from which the setae of annelids arise.
- English Word Trichopter Definition One of the Trichoptera.
- English Word Trichoptera Definition A suborder of Neuroptera usually having the wings covered with minute hairs. It comprises the caddice flies, and is considered by some to be a distinct order.
- English Word Trichopteran Definition One of the Trichoptera.
- English Word Trichopterous Definition Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the Trichoptera.
- English Word Trichord Definition An instrument, as a lyre or harp, having three strings.
- English Word Trichoscolices Definition An extensive group of wormlike animals characterized by being more or less covered with cilia.
- English Word Trichotomous Definition Divided into three parts, or into threes; three-forked; as, a trichotomous stem.