synchysis (singkisis)

[LL., Worst of the worst were that man he that reigns! Tennyson, Guinevere. [NL., (b) In pathol . , fluidity of the vitreous humor of the eye. Synchysis scintillans, fluidity of the vitreous humor of the eye, with the presence of small crystals of cholesterin or other substance, which appear as sparkling points on ophthalmoscopic examination. Synchytrieæ (sing-ki-tri'ē-ē), n . pl . Synchytrium + -ex .] A suborder of zygomycetous fungi, named from the genus Synchytri um. They inhabit the epiderm of terrestrial flowering plants, in which they produce small yellow or dark-red galls, due to the abnormal swelling of the epidermal cells affected. The group is incompletely known.