hypodermic injection

Surg.: Injections beneath the skin, chiefly of morphia or some other narcotic. Hypodermic in used under medical advice. jections are valuable remedies, but should only be The same as HYPODERMIC (q. v.). hy-pô-der-mic-al, a. [Eng. hypodermic; -al.] hỹ-po-der-mic-al-ly, adv . [English hypoder . mical ; -ly.] Under the skin. "Varying quantities of poison are to be hypodermically injected into dogs."-London Times. hỹ-pô-der-mis, s. [HYPODERMA.] Bot.: The under layer of the spore-case of an urn IMG:content-1418.png:[blocks in formation] Chem.: C16H30O2. A monatomic fatty acid contained as a glyceride, together with palmitin and arachin, in the oil of the earthnut Arachis hypogœa , Hypogeic acid crystallizes from ether in needles which melt at 33 *hy-po-gæ-ŭm, s . [HYPOGMAN.] Arch .: A name given to all parts of a building below the level of the ground, as vaults. cellars, . hy-pô-găs-tric, a . [Pref. hypo- , and Eng. gas tric .] Relating to or in any way connected with the hypogastrium (q. v.). IMG:content-1419.png:[blocks in formation] hỹ-pô-ģē -ạn, hy-pô-ģē al, a. [HYPOGEAN.] hy-pô-gene, a. [Pref. hypo-, and Gr. gignomai =to come into being.] Geol.: Nether-formed. A name applied to rocks, believed by Sir Charles Lyell and his followers to have originated some considerable distance beneath the surface of the ground. He included under the designation igneous rocks like granite, and metamorphic ones like gnei . He introduced the term hypogene to supersede the word primary, when it was found that some of the rocks to which the latter term was applied were posterior to many of the secondary rocks. shypogene-limestone, glo al. ] 8. [METAMORPHIC-LIME hỹ-pô-glos-sal, a . [Pref. hypo- , and English Anat.: Beneath the tongue. Used specially of the hypoglo al nerve, which is the motor nerve of the tongue, and partly of some dorsal muscles. It is the ninth cranial nerve. hy-po-glot-tis, hỹ-po-glos-sis, s . [Gr. hypo =under, and glotta , glo a =the tongue.] 1. The under part of the tongue. 2. A lozenge to be kept under the tongue, until di olved. thy-pô-gỹn, s. [HYPOGYNOUS.] Bot.: A hypogynous plant. hypo podium hỹ-pog-yn-ous, a. [Gr. hypo under; gyne = that which is feminine, and Eng. suff. -ous.] Botany: 1. Of stamens: Growing from below the base of the ovary-i. e., on the receptacle, and not united to any other organ. 2. Of plants: Not having the stamens adherent to either calyx or corolla, or inserted into the pistil. hypogynous-exogens, s . pl . Bot.: A cla of exogens, consisting of those which have hypogynous stamens. Lindley divides them into fourteen alliances: Violales, Cistales, Malvales, Sap in dales, Guttiferales, Nympha les, Ranales, Berberales, Ericales, Rutalcs, Geraniales, Silen a les, Chenopod a les, and Pipe rales. [See these words.]