articular

[In Fr. articulaire; from Lat. articular is.] Pertaining or relating to the joints. ". the head of the thigh-bone, an articular eminence."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. i., p. 105. IMG:content-0774.png:[blocks in formation] nervous system consists of two cords extending along the under part of their body, and swelled out at regular intervals into knots or ganglia. One of these is the brain, which is not much larger than the other ganglia. Cuvier divided the Articulata into four cla es, arranged in an ascending order-the Annelid a, the Crustacea, the Arachnid a, and the Insect a. Profe or Owen includes under the province Articulata four cla es (1) Annul at a, (2) Cirriped i a, (3) Crustacea, and (4) Insect a. With the insects proper he combines also the Myriapod a, or Centipedes, and the Arachnid a, or Spiders. ( Owen : Palront., 1868.) The name Articulata (jointed animals) being a somewhat indefinite one, Annulosa (ringed animals) has been substituted for it by Macleay and other naturalists. Prof. Huxley divides Cuvier's IMG:content-0775.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To utter distinctly separated, and therefore intelligible sounds; to speak. "The prisoner, stupefied by illne . was unable to articulare, or to understand what pa ed."-- Macsday : His . Eng ., chap. v.