Herbivorous

(her-biv' '-or-us). A descriptive term applied to animals that subsist on vegetation. Hering's Experiment. A delicate test of stereoscopic vision in which the perception of degrees of depth is tested by means of falling bodies, seen through a long Herbst's Corpuscles. A variety of sensory end-organs found in the mucous membrane of the tongue of the tube. H.'s Theory. See Color sensation. Hermann's Difference-theory. See Difference. H.'s Theory, a theory as to the causation of muscular contraction he; claims that the formation of carbonic an hydrid on contraction is not simply due to oxidation, but rather to the decomposition of inogen, with the formation of certain simpler products, of which carbonic an hydrid is one, and sarcolactic acid and myosin the others. Hermaphrodism, or Hermaphroditism (her-maf ro-dizm, her-maf '-ro-dit-izm). The co-existence in a single individual of completely developed ovaries and testicles, or of at least one of each gland. H., Bilateral, an ovary and a testicle on each side. H., Complex, a rare instance of hermaphrodism in which there are prosent both the internal and external organs of either sex. H., Double. Same as H., Complex. H., Lateral, an instance in which male organs (especially a testicle) are more or le developed on one side, and female organs (especially an ovary) on the opposite side. H., Protandrous, applied to the phenomenon:i hibited by most hermaphrodite platode worms, oi developing the male sexual products before the female. H., Spurious, doubtful, but not double, sex. H., Transverse, an instance in which the external organs indicate the one sex, and the internal the opposite. H., Unilateral, on one side an ovary and a testicle, on the other an ovary or a testicle. H., Vertical. Same as Complex. duck; they resemble small Vater's corpuscles, but their lamellae are thinner and closer to each other, while the axis-cylinder within the central core is bordered on each side by a row of nuclei.