bathmism (bathmizm)

[ It is here left open whether there be any form of force which may be especially designated as "vital." Many of the animal functions are known to be physical and chemical, and if there be any one which appears to be le explicable by reference to these forces than the others, it is that of nutrition. Probably in this instance force has been so metamorphosed through the influence of the origi native or conscious force in evolution, that it is a distinct species in the category of forces. A uming it to be such, I have given it the name of Bathmism . E. D. Cope , Meth. of Creation, p. 26. Bath mod on (bath'mo-don), n. [NL., βαθ μός, a step, + ὀδούς = Ε. tooth .] A genus of fo il hoofed quadrupeds named by Cope in 1872, subsequently identified by him with Cory phodon (which see).