Asphodel

a name applied cither to the Lily. like genus Asphodel us, many of which are cultivated for their flowers, or to the British Narthecium o ifragum, a member of the Rush tribe, with spikes of yellow, star-like blo oms, followed by or angered fruits. growing in bogs and erroneously supposed to cause disease in the bones of sheep. In Greek mythology, an “asphodel meadow” is the home of the blest after death. Asphyxia. When the due aeration of the blood in the lungs by the proce es of respiration is interfered with, difficult respiration or dyapnosa 252 is asphyxia struct i on of ference rounding asphyxia movements the causes the convulsions by movement sighing complete. stages minutes; rome times minutes the ing from (Fr. order of including group tubercles, const Central of eastern its busy through proclaimed term the result, the muscles increasingly lividity lips the are vital Aspio fish, its apic) Asp i do branchia, of the tongue Asp i do chi rotes, is Asp in wall, of Manzanilla, Rame and Aspirate applied Aspic. ( 226 and if relief be not afforded death by occurs, Asphyxia may arise from obin the respiratory pa ages, from paralysis of respiration, or from some inter with the supply of oxygen from the sur atmosphere. In the development of three stages are described: in the first the of respiration become exaggerated and venous character of the blood of surface particularly noticeable in and face; in the second stage general occur, and finally death is ushered in stage of exhaustion in which muscular is only manifested in an occasional inspiration, while insensibility becomes In the asphyxia of drowning all three pa ed through in from two to five artificial respiration (q.v.) is, however, succe ful in effecting restoration many after the apparently complete ce ation of functions. (Fr. aspic), a savoury meat jelly contain game, ctc. The name may be derived coolne (Fr. aspic, asp), or from the spikes of lavender originally used to flavour it. or Rx1e1D0GLo8sA, the sub- Gastropod a, in which the lateral teeth or vaduda are in fan-shaped series. 1 sub-order of Sea Cucumbers the common genus Holothuria. The characterised by the po e ion of peltate tube feet, and respiratory trees. or CoLon, a seaport on the north Panama in the United States of Colombia, America. It stands upon the coral island nnd was founded in 1850 as the terminus of the Panama Railway, taking from the originator of the line. It is a increasing town. The strip of land which the line runs has since 1873 been neutral territory ASPLENIUM TRI CHO MANES, (Showing (a) fronds with sori.) (Lat. adapiro, to breathe upon), a to the sound of 4, and of all letters or ) A . combinations of letters containing it, as the Greek phi, chi, and theta, or the English th. In Greek writing the initial A-sound is indicated by a special sign, the “rough breathing,” to which the name is also applied.