Lieutaud's body

(le-S-to') [Joseph Lieutaud, French physician, 1703-1780,] Trigone of the bladder. L.'s sinus, a connecting channel between the lateral sinus and the inferior longitudinal sinus. L.'s tri'angle, L.'s body. L.'s u'vula, a small median ridge in the trigone of the bladder. life [A.S.K/,] I. Vitality, the e ential condition of existence of animals and plants; the state of existence characterized by metabolism. 2. The period of utility of any object, as of an electric battery, for example, av'erage future 1., expectation of life, expect a'tion of 1., the average length of time that a number of persons at a given age are presumed to live, according to the mortality table. 1. expec'iancy, expectation of 1. limit of 1., in life insurance the age at which, according to the mortality table, the last man is presumed to die; in the American Experience Table,* this age is ninety-six years, prob'able 1., in life insurance the period at the end of which one-half of the number of persons of a given age at the beginning of the period will still be living veg'etative I., the simple metabolic and reproductive activity of man or animals, apart from the exercise of conscious mental or psychic proce es. A life'-insu"'rance. contractual obligation a umed by a company or a ociation of individuals to pay to the beneficiary or estate of a person, called the insured, a specified sum of money in the event of his death, on condition that the insured pay to the company either a certain amount yearly (a premium-) or such sums as the company or a ociation may from time to time call upon him to pay (a e ments). See policy and premium. l.-i. com'pany, an a ociation formed for the accumulation of a fund out of which to pay a specified sum to the heirs of any of the members who die; an a e ment company is one the members of which are called upon, whenever one of their number dies, for a sum which will in the aggregate, after deducting expenses, pay the amotmt of the deceased's policy; a mutual company is one every member of which has theoretically a voice in ite management and has an interest in the accumulated funds of the a ociation in proportion to the amoimt he has contributed in premiums; a stock company is one controlled by a limited number of persons, the stockholders, who receive the profits of the busine a mixed company is a stock com; pany the policy-holders of which share with the stockholders in the profits an old-line company is; one the premium rates of whose policies are fixed and are not subject to decrease or increase during the continuance of the policy; a legal reserve company is the same as an old-line company, such a company being required imder the law to maintain a reserve in cash or approved securities not le in amount than the net value of all its policies in force; fraternal, cooperative, and stipulated premium companies provide for the payment of death claims either by a e ment or by a premium which is subject to change according to circumstances, lig'ament [L, ligamenium, a band, bandage,] i, A band or sheet of fibrous ti ue connecting two or more bones, cartilages, or other structures, or serving as support for fascias or muscles. 2, A fold of thickened peritoneum supporting any of the abdominal viscera. 3. Any structure resembling a ligament though not performing the function of such. 4. The remains of a fetal artery or other structure. [For the titles not given in the following list see under lig amentum or the eponymic term,] cap's ular the sac-like mem1., brane enclosing a joint more or le completely. car'dinal 1., one of several fibrous bands running through the base of the broad ligament of the ' uterus beside the ve els and nerves, check 1., lig amentum alare, cil'iary musculus* 1., ciliaris. cot'yloid 1., a fibro cartilaginous ring which deepens