milIary

[Lat. miliarius, from milium =a millet-seed; Fr. miliaire.] 1. Bot .: Granulate, resembling an aggregation of many seeds. IMG:content-1203.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Anat.: The same as SEBACEOUS-GLANDS (q.v.). 2. Bot.: The same as STOMATES (q. v.). miliary-tubercle, s. Path .: A grayish-white, translucent, non-vascular body of firm consistence and well-defined spherical outline, usually about the size of a millet-seed, common in the lungs and the membranes of the brain. When it softens it is usually called Yellow or Crude Tubercle. Within the last few years a special bacillus has been demonstrated in tubercle. *mil-Içe, s . (Fr.) A militia. "The two-and-twentieth of the prince's age is the time a igned by their constitutions for his entering upon the public charges of their milice ."- Temple : War in the Low Countries. †mi-li-o-bā-tis, s . (MYLIOBATIS.] mil-i-ō-lạ, s. [Mod. Lat., from Lat. milium= millet, from the small size of the species.] 1. Zool .: The typical genus of the family Miliolida (q.v.). The shell is extremely variable in form, but consists typically of a series of chambers wound round an axis, so that each embraces half the entire circumference. 2. Palæont . Range in time, from the Lias till now. [MIL IOLITE-LIMESTONE.]