cyclitis (siklitis)

[NL., The cyclic aspect of a nation's literary history has been so frequently observed that any reference to it involves a ring: see cycle .] An element in words of Greek truism. cyclo-. [NL., etc., cyclo-, Stedman, Vict. Poets, p. 238. origin, meaning 'circle.' 3. In anc. metrics, delivered more rapidly than C Cyclo branchia (si-klō-brang'ki-ä), n. pl. [NL., usual, so as to occupy only three times or moræ κύκλος, & circle, + βράγχια, gills.] Same instead of four: used to note certain dactyls as Cyclo branch i at a. and anapests. Thus, a cyclic dactyl is equivacyclobranchian (sī-klō-brang'ki-an), n. [ See chorus.- Cyclic dyadic. See dyadic. - Cyclic flow er, a flower in which the parts are arranged in distinct whorls.- Cyclic planes of a cone of the second order, the two planes through one of the axes which are parallel region, in geom., a region within which a closed line can to the planes of the circular section of the cone. Cyclic be drawn in such a manner that it cannot shrink indefi nitely without pa ing out of the region. II. n. A cyclic poem. The whole multitudinous people, divine and human, of the whole Greek cyclics , seem to me as if sculptured in a half relief upon the black marble wall of their fate. S. Lanier, The English Novel, p. 88. Cyclic a (sik'li-kä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of L. cyclic us, Ca idariæ , Chrysomelinæ, and Galerucitæ . cyclical (sik'li-kal), a. [ cyclic + -al .] 1. Pertaining to a cycle; cyclic. Cole ridge. Time, cyclical time, was their abstraction of the Deity. 2. In bot .: (a) Rolled up circularly, as many embryos. (b) Arranged in cycles or whorls; verticillate.-3. In zoöl ., recurrent in succe ive circles; serially circular; spiral; whorled. We find in the nautiloid spire a tendency to pa into the cyclical mode of growth. W. B. Carpenter, Micros., § 457. clobranchia + -an.] One of the Cyclo branch i at a. Cyclo branch i at a (sī-klō-brang-ki-ā'tä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of cyclo branch i at us: see cyclo branchiate.] 1†. In De Blainville's system of cla ification, an order of gastropodous mollusks, characterized by the circular disposition of the gills, represented by the chitons and limpets. The group as thus constituted is not now generally adopted.-2. A suborder of proso branchiate gastropods, modified from the original group by the exclusion of the chitons or polyplacophorous mollusks, and consisting only of the limpets or doco glo ate gastropods. They are proso branchiate gastropods with flat, lamellar, foliaceous gills circularly disposed around the foot, under the edge of the mantle; a lingual armature consisting of horny toothed plates (whence the name Doco glo a, applied by Troschel); two kidneys; no external copulatory organs; the foot large and strong, and usually flat and broad; and sometimes a dextral cervical gill. The functional gills are not modified ctenidia, the true ctenidia of limpets being reduced to mere papillæ. See Doco glo a, Patellida. Also Cyclo branchia . cyclo branchiate (si-klō-brang'ki-at), a. [ κύκλος , a circle, + βράγχια, gills.] Having a circlet of plaited gills, as a limpet; specifically, having the char- acters of the Cyclo branch i at a . cyclocephali, n. Plural of cyclocephalus . cyclo cephalic (sīklō-se-fal'ik or -sef'a-lik), a. cyclocephalus + -ic.] Pertaining to or re- sembling a cyclocephalus. cyclocephalus (sī-klō-sef'a-lus), n.; pl. cycloce- phali (-lī). [NL., κύκλος , a circle, + κεφαλή, head.] 1. In teratol . , a monster whose eyes are in contact or united in one.-2. The head of one suffering from hydrocephalus. Dunglison . Cyclo clype in a (sī-klō-klip-e-i'nä), n . pl . [NL., Cyclical relation, in logic , a relation such that, in pa -Cyclo clypeus + -ina2 .] A group of for am in- ing from term to its correlate, and again to the correlate of that correlate, and so on, the original term is again ifers, typified by the genus Cyclo clypeus . The test reached. Cyclical square or cube, in alg., a square or cube which is congruent to its base, especially with a modulus of ten.