a cines i a (a sines i a)

Same as akinesia. Acineta (as-i-ne'tä), n. [NL., genus of noble epiphytal orchids, from Central America, much prized as hothouse plants.-2. A genus of suctorial infusorial protozoa protozoans. See Acinetæ and Acinetina. Ehrenberg. Acinetæ (as-i-nē'tē), n. pl. [NL.: see Acineta.] An order of the cla Infusoria (the Infusoria tentaculifera or suctoria ), the adult members of which have no cilia and no proper mouth, and are non-locomotive. The body, which is fixed and stalked, is provided with radiating retractile suctorial Acineta. proce es, or tubular tentacles, having at their extremities a knob or disk-like sucker, through which nutrient matter is imbibed. The Acinetæ multiply by several methods. One of these...consists in the development of ciliated embryos in the interior of the body. These embryos result from a separation of a portion of the endoplast, and its conversion into a globular or oval germ, which in some species is wholly covered with vibratile cilia, while in others the cilia are confined to a zone around the middle of the embryo. The germ makes its escape by bursting through the body-wall of its parent. After a short existence (sometimes limited to a few minutes) in the condition of a free-swimming animalcule, provided with an endo