eccrisist (ekrisis)

[NL., Echidna ment, company, or other body occupies a position parallel to, but not in the same alinement with, that in front, thus presenting the appearance of steps, and capable of being formed into one line by moving each of the le advanced divisions, etc., forward until they all aline. Troops so disposed are said to be in echelon. A fleet is said to be in echelon when it presents a wedge-form to the enemy, so that the bow-guns and broadsides of the several ships can defend one another. The beaters moved in echelon by the hill-top as well as they could. W. H. Ru ell, Diary in India, II. 166. The friends were standing where the Cat skill hills lay before them in echelon towards the river, the ridges lapping over each other and receding in the distance. C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 54. echelon (esh'e-lon), v. t. [ echelon , n.] To form in echelon. The Ru ian army of the Lom in the end of July was echeloned along the road to Rustchuk, waiting for the word to surround that fortre . Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 128. κυεῖν , be pregnant.] Extra-uterine gestation, or the development of the fetus outside of the cavity of the uterus, as in a Fallopian tube, an ovary, or the abdominal cavity. eccyliosis (ek-sil-i-o's is), n. [NL., λίεσθαι , be unrolled (develop) ( ἐκ , out, + κυλίειν , roll up: see cylinder ), + -osis.] In pathol . , a disease or disturbance of development; a disorder resulting from the proce of developecderon (ek'de-ron), n. [NL., ἐκ , out, + δέρος, skin.] An outer layer of integument, as the epithelial layer of mucous membrane, or the epidermal layer of the skin: distinguished from enderon , the deeper layer. ecderonic (ek-de-ron'ik), a. [ ecderon + -ic .] Of or pertaining to the ecderon; epidermal or epithelial. ment. Teeth in Mollusca and Annulosa are always ecderonic , cuticular, or epithelial structures. Huxley , Anat. Vert., p. 80.