NEUROMA

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) A tumour formed in or upon a nervous trunk. NEUROPTERANS, Neuroptera. {Gr.yiu^ev, a nerve, jTre^ov, a wing.) The order of Tetrapterous Mandibulate insects, including those in which the nervures of the wings are so disposed as to form a more or le regular network. They are distinguished from the Coleopterous, Orthopterous, and Hemipterous orders of four-winged insects, by the first or anterior pair of wings being membranous, diaphanous, and resembling the second pair in texture and properties. The abdomen is unprovided with a sting. The antennse are usually setaceous. Some neuropterans merely pa through a semi-metamorphosis, the rest a complete one; the larva; have always six hooked feet. Many of these insects are carnivorous in their first state and their last. The dragon-fly may be regarded as the type of this order. NEUROTOMY. {Gr. viv(o»,a.ndTt,wa,, I cut.) The cutting of a nerve. NEUTER (Lat. neither), in Grammar, signifies that gender which nouns po e that are neither masculine nor feminine. Neuter or intransitive verbs are those which represent the properties of a state or proce , as / rest, I fall, I grow, . See Grammar. Neuter was the name given to the " labourers" of the hive-bee before it was discovered that they were e entially females, though infertile. [s. 835]