visualization (vizualizashon)

[ We have a problem of visualization - the mind is called upon to supply an optical image. Proc. Amer . Soc. Psych. Research, I. 311. visualize (viz'u-al-iz), v.; pret. and pp. visual ized, ppr. visualizing. [ IMG:content-1900.png:[blocks in formation] vital A competence is vital to content. Young , Night Thoughts, vi. 506. A knowledge of the law and a devotion to its principles are vital to a republic, and lie at the very foundation of its strength. Story, Misc. Writings, p. 512. 5t. Capable of living; viable. Pythagoras, Hippo crates,... and others. the birth of the seventh month to be vital. affirming Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iv. 12. Vital airt, an old name for oxygen gas, which is e ential to animal life. - Vital capacity of the lungs. See capa city. Vital center. Same as center of respiration (which see, under respiration ). - Vital Christianity. See Chris tianity, (c).- congruityt, the mode of union body and soul according to the English Platonists. Vital contractility, the power of contraction inherent in living muscular ti ue. - Vital fluid, the name given by Schultze to a fluid in plants, found in certain ve els called by him vital ve els. It is also termed latex. - Vital force, the animating force in animals and plants. See the first quotation under vitality, 1.- Vital functions. See func tion.-Vital-germ theory of contagion, the theory that contagious diseases are due to the presence of perverted bioplasts which are descended from others originally healthy.-Vital power, the ability to live, or continue alive; vitality. The movement of the bioplasm is vital, occurs only during life, and is due to vital power - which vital power of this, the highest form of bioplasm in nature, is in fact the living I. Beale , Bioplasm, p. 209. Vital principle, that principle upon which, when united with organized matter, the phenomena of life are supposed to depend. See vitality. - Vital sense, cœnesthesis.Vital tripod. See tripod. IMG:content-1901.png:[blocks in formation] vitiator of an ovum; the germinative or formative protoplasmic contents of an ovum-cell, ovum-cell, which is transformed into the body of the embryo, plus that substance, if any, which nourishes the embryo during its germination and subsequent growth. Hence, in meroblastic ova, two kinds of vitellus are distinguished, the germ-yolk, or germinative vitellus proper, and the food-yolk, the former forming and the latter nourishing the embryo.-Segmentation of the vitellus. See segmentation. - Vitellus formativus, formative or true yolk. See morpholecithus. Vitellus nutritivus, food-yolk. See tropholecithus. Vitex (vī'teks), n. [NL. (Rivinus, 1690), a very five-cleft or two-lipped limb The vitascope, a far more complicated and powerful structure [than the kinetoscope], takes this same ribbon which has been prepared by the kinetoscope, and coils it up on a disc at the top of the machine, from which it is pa ed over a system of wheels and through a narrow, upright clamp-like contrivance that brings it down to a strong magnifying lens, behind which there is an electric burner of high capacity. The light from this carbon burner blazes fiercely through the translucent ribbon, and projects the images on the negatives there, blended, to a distant screen, with great clearne , for the benefit of the audience. North Amer. Rev., CLXIII. 377. In phren., the