cervid (servid)

A ruminant of the family Cervidæ, as a deer. Cervidæ (sėr'vi-dē), n. pl. [NL., ce avit branched, and known as antlers. The family formerly included the small deer-like animals of the genus Tragu lus, but these are now regarded as a separate family. The Cervidæ are divided into the Cervinæ, the Cervulinæ, and the Moschinæ, or the deer proper, muntjacs, and muskdeer. The leading genera are Alces, Rangifer, Dama, Cervus (with many subgenera), Capreolus, Cervulus, Mos chus, and Hydro potes, represented by such animals as the elk or moose, the reindeer, cariboo, wapiti, stag, roebuck, fallow-deer, muntjac, musk-deer, etc. The Cervidæ are first found fo il in the Miocene. name of a mood of the second figure of syllogism, consisting of three universal propositions, the major premise and conclusion being negative and the minor premise being affirmative: as, No false religion produces good moral results; all kinds of Christianity produce good moral results; therefore, no kind of Christianity is a false religion. Five of the six letters composing the word cesare are significant. Cmeans that the mood is reducible to celarent; e, that the major premise is a universal negative; s, that this premise is simply converted reduction; a, that the premise is a universal affirmative; e, that the conclusion is a universal negative. See barbara and mood2. Cervinæ (sèr-vi'nē), n. pl . [NL., Cervidæ , having horns in one or both sexes, and the canine teeth small or wanting, characters distinguishing the typical deer from Cesarean, Cesarian, a . See Cæsarean . ( Moschina ). vitch. Dichobune . cervisia, cerevisia (ser-, ser-e-vis'i-a), n. [L., also cervesia, beer: a word of Gallic origin.] Beer. cervix (sèr'viks), n.; pl. cervices (-vi-sez). [L., as pp. of cespitare, prop. cæspitare, stumble, the neck.] 1. In zoöl . and an at .: ( a ) The neck; the constricted part of the body between the head and the chest. [Little used.] (b) The back of the neck; the scruff of the neck, re- garded either as to its surface or its deep parts. (c) That part of a rib which is situated between its head and shoulder; the neck of a rib, between hairs. the capitellum and the tuberculum. (d) In en- Also cespitous . growing the head, over the occipital foramen, and adjoining the vertex. (e) Part of an organ likened to a neck: as, the cervix of the womb or bladder.-21. In bot., a rhizome or rootstock. Cervix cornu, or cervix cornu posterior is, the constricted part of the posterior horn of gray substance in the spinal cord. - Cervix gland is, the constriction behind the corona gland is of the penis. - Cervix uteri, the neck of the womb; the narrower and lower part of the uterus, nearly an inch in length. - Cervix vesicæ, the neck of the bladder. Cervulinæ (ser-vu-li'nē), n. pl. [NL., cervuline (servū-lin), a. Pertaining to the Cervulinæ or muntjacs.