ANODE

(Gr. ava, upwards, and 6 $,aicny.) The way by which electricity enters substances through which it pa es: opposed to cathode, the road or way by which it goes A NO DON.out. (Gr. d, priv., dSov;, a tooth.) The name of a genus of Lamellibranch i ale Bivalves, including the common freshwater muscle, the shell of which has no articular proce es, or teeth, at the hinge The name has also been applied to a genus of serpents, which have the teeth in the mouth very minute, or rudimeutal: the Anodon Typus {Coluber scaber of Linnaeus), a South American species of this genus, lives upon the eg of birds, which, by the structure of the mouth above mentioned, it is enabled to swallow entire. The inferior spinous proce es of the cervical vertebras are prolonged into the gullet, and there receive a coating of enamel; thus serving the office of [s. 70]