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[In Fr. acce oire.] IMG:content-0076.png:[blocks in formation] 47 2. Anat . Acce ory nerves (acce orius Will is i i, or par acce orium): A pair of nerves which pursue a very devious course in the bodily frame. Arising by several filaments from the medulla spinal is of the neck, they advance to the first vertebra, and thence through the foramen of the os occipitis to the cranium. After communicating there with the ninth and tenth pairs they pa out close to the eighth, and terminate finally in the trapezius. "The eighth pair [of nerves, according to Will an's arrangement] including the glo o-pharyngeal, the pneumo-gastric, and the spinal acce ory ."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol . Anat., vol, ii, ch. xi. 3. Zool . Acce ory cusps (in teeth): Those superadded to the more normal ones, and contributing to their efficiency. "The tooth of the fo il in question differs in the shape of the middle and in the size of the acce ory cusp a .--Owen British Fo il Mammals (1846), p. 72. Acce ory valves (in the shells of the molluscous genera Pholas, Pholididia, and Xylophaga): Small valves additional to the two large ones naturally occurring in those "bivalve" shells. They protect their dorsal margins. They are well seen in the common Pholas dactylus . 4. Painting: Pertaining to the une ential parts of a picture, introduced either for the purpose of illustrating the main subject, or for ornament's sake. 5. Scots Law : (a) Acce ory actions are those which are subservient to others, or designed to prepare the way for them as, for instance, an action for the recovery of lost deeds. (b) An acce ory obligation is an obligation arising from another one which is antecedent and primary to it. Thus when one borrows money at interest, the repayment of the principal is the primary, and the regular liquidation of the interest the acce ory obligation. ăc-çěs'-sus. [Lat. acce us.] A term in canon law, signifying a method of voting at the election of a pope, generally known as an election by acclamation.