APEX

(Lat.),n.m.?Ype?x, *Gen., ap'icis. Fr.,cime, pointe, sommet. Ger., Spitze. It., apice. Sp., dpice. 1. The projecting top or summit of anything, 2. Reichenbach’s name for the profecting, portion (mucro, rostrum) of the galea of a galeate calyx. . Ray’s name for an anther. 4. In the embryo of a plant that yay opposite to the radicle. 5. In Fungi, a term applied to the pileus when it consists merely of the pointed extremity of the stipes. [B, 198.]—A.-beat. Ger., Spit zen sto . The impulse of the a. of the heart against the wall of the chest.—A. cord is. The a. of the heart.—A. cornu posterior is. The extremity of the posterior cornu of the lateral ventricle of the brain. [I,6.]—Apices corporum caver no so rum penis. The anterior extremities of the corpora cavernosa of the penis. [L,7.|—A. geometric us. Fr., sommet géométrique. That point on a fruit which is most elevated above the base. [B, 1.]—A. organic us. Fr., sommet organ i que. GRR pe on a fruit representing the insertion of the stigma. [B, 1.]—A. pneumonia. See under Preumonia.—A. proce . See under Proce .—A. prost at i ens. The anterior (pointed) extremity of the prostate. [L, 115.) —A. pulmonis. The apex of the lung. —A, seminal is, That extremity of the funiculus umbilical is which is attached to the seed in plants. [B, 197.]