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- Development - n. - The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.
- Development - n. - The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.
- Development - n. - The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another of equivalent value or meaning.
- Development - n. - The equivalent expression into which another has been developed.
- Development - n. - The elaboration of a theme or subject; the unfolding of a musical idea; the evolution of a whole piece or movement from a leading theme or motive.
- Developmental - a. - Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ.
- Pemphigus - n. - A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.
- Viable - a. - Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
- Ritualism - n. - Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England.
- Cytoblast - n. - The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
- Plantule - n. - The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
- Ectrotic - a. - Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
- Hypertrophy - n. - A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.
- Ingrowth - n. - A growth or development inward.
- Cytula - n. - The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
- Ramification - n. - The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
- Rhinoscleroma - n. - A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat.
- Phylogeny - n. - The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.
- Aecidium - n. - A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
- Plica - v. - A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
- Sociology - n. - That branch of philosophy which treats of the constitution, phenomena, and development of human society; social science.
- Embryology - n. - The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
- Monogenesis - n. - The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis.
- Histogenetic - a. - Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.
- Subimago - n. - A stage in the development of certain insects, such as the May flies, intermediate between the pupa and imago. In this stage, the insect is able to fly, but subsequently sheds a skin before becoming mature. Called also pseudimago.
- Atrophied - p. a. - Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.
- Monerula - n. - A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
- Electro-magnetism - n. - The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved.
- Pseudofilaria - n. - One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinae.
- Germination - n. - The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.
- Morphosis - n. - The order or mode of development of an organ or part.