protocolist (pro toko list)

[ = G. protocol list = Sw. Dan. protokollist = Ru . protokolis tă; as protocol + -ist.] A register or clerk. The protocolists, or secretaries. Harper's Monthly, LXIV. 275. protocolize (prōtō-kol-īz), v. i.; pret. and pp. protocolized, ppr. protocolizing. [ In Kept protocolizing with soft promises and delusive delays. Mahony , Father Prout, p. 35, note. ( Encyc . Dict.) proto-compound (pro'tō-kom"pound), n . chem ., originally, the first of a series of binary compounds arranged according to the number of atoms of the electronegative element. At present the term is most commonly used, in contradistinction to per - compounds , to designate those compounds of an element which contain relatively le of the electronegative radical. Thus, two chlorids of iron are known, FeCl2 and Fe Cle; the former is called pro to chlorid, the latter per chlorid. [The name is le usual now than it was some years ago.] pro to conch (prōtō-kongk), n. [ cephalopod. or i cell, and ovisac. The position was taken that the scar of the Nautiloides showed that a pro to conch had existed in the embryo of Nautilus, but had disappeared during the growth of the shell, the scar being uncovered by its removal. A. Hyatt , Proc. Amer. A oc. A v. Sci., 1884, p. 325. pro to conchal (prōtō-kong-kal), a . [ conch + -al . ] Pertaining to the pro to conch. Protoderm i aceæ (prō-tō-dér-mi-ā'sē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (Rostafinski), Protodermium + -accæ .] A family of Myxomycetes of the order Proto dermieæ , containing the monotypic genus Protodermium. It has the characters of the order. Protodermieæ (prōtō-dėr-mi'ē-ē), n. pl. [NL., cex. and destitute of capitulum; the spores are violet. Protodermium (prō-to-der'mi-um), n. [NL. (Rostafinski, 1875), pro to dipnoan (prō-to-dipʼno-an), n. [ Proto-Doric (prō-to-dor'ik), a. and n. [ II. n . In arch ., primitive or rudimentary Doric. See cut under hypogeum . pro to gaster (prō-to-gas'ter), n . [ γαστήρ , stomach.] In embryol ., the central cavity of a gastrula; the primitive intestinal cavity of a two-layered germ; the hollow of the archenteron of a germ-cup, inclosed by the hypoblastic blastodermic membrane or endoderm, and communicating with the exterior by the pro to stoma or archæostoma, which is the orifice of invagination of the antecedent blastula. IMG:content-1150.png:[blocks in formation] 4798 + L. mala, mandible.] The mandible of a myriapod, the morphological equivalent of that of a hex apodous insect, but not structurally homologous therewith, rather resembling the lacinia of the maxilla of the hexapods. See the quotation, and cut under epilabrum. The pro to mala consists of two portions, the car do and stipes, while the hex apodous mandible is invariably composed of but one piece, to which the muscles are directly attached, and which corresponds to the stipes of the myriapodous pro to mala . A. S. Packard, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., June, 1883, p. 198. In the Pro to genes of Profe or Haeckel, there has been reached a type distinguishable from a fragment of albumen only by its finely-granular character. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 55. + -ar3.] In Myriapod a, same as protomalal. protomartyr (prō-to-märter), n. [Formerly also pro tho martyr; = F. protomartyr = Sp. pro tomártir = Pg. protomartyr = It. pro to mar tire, first, + γένεσις, generation.] The origination of living from not-living matter; abiogenesis. It is a logical inference that pro to genesis has occurred at some time, but we have no knowledge of the fact. pro to genetic (prōtō-jē-net'ik), a. [As proto genic, with term. as in genetic.] Same as pro to genic.