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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.
- Animism - n. - The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
- Pyaemia - n. - A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.
- Pauper - n. - A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
- Dynamo-electric - a. - Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
- Transmutation - n. - The change of one species into another, which is assumed to take place in any development theory of life; transformism.
- Neoplasia - n. - Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.
- Heterocercy - n. - Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.
- Reptilia - n. pl. - A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.
- Hastings sands - - The lower group of the Wealden formation; -- so called from its development around Hastings, in Sussex, England.
- Transformation - n. - Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis.
- Ectrotic - a. - Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.
- Morphosis - n. - The order or mode of development of an organ or part.
- Pathogeny - n. - That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
- Primary - a. - First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sarcoma - n. - 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.
- Plantule - n. - The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
- Chondrogenesis - n. - The development of cartilage.
- Haematoblast - n. - One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.
- Ephyra - n. - A stage in the development of discophorous medusae, when they first begin to swim about after being detached from the strobila. See Strobila.
- Tuberculization - n. - The development of tubercles; the condition of one who is affected with tubercles.
- Scrofula - n. - A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis (consumption).
- Biogeny - n. - Life development generally.
- Monophyletic - a. - Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; -- opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.