entonic

[ Gr.entonos =strained; enteino=to stretch tight: en =intensive, and teino =to stretch.] Med .: Having increased tone; acting with morbidly great power, force or effect. Used chiefly of the circulatory system. en-to-per-iph-er-al, a. [ Gr.entos =within, and Eng., ., peripheral (q. v.).] entophyte circumference, or outer surface of the body. Examples, the sensations of hunger, thirst, . It is opposed to epiperipheral (q. v.). en-to-phyte ( pl. en-to-phyteş, ěn-toph-ta), s. [ Gr.entos =within, and phyton =a plant, a tree.] Bot., .: A plant which grows in the interior of animal or vegetable structures, as distinguished from an entozoan, a word which, in the etymological sense, means an animal having a similar mode of life. Entophytes are mostly fungi; and though the species are really numerous, they have yet been unduly multiplied. Entophytes infesting man or the mammal i a, specially when diseased, live on the skin, on the mucous surfaces, or in cavities. Thus in Favus, there are Puccinia favus and A chorion schænleinii, if the latter be more than an immature stage of the former. Trichophyton tonsurans exists among the hair in Plicapolonica and Favus. Mi crosporon audouinii in the hair follicles in Porrigo decalvans, M. mentagrophytes on the beard, and M. furfur on the skin of the chest in Pityriasis versicolor. In the mucous surfaces or in cavities there are Sarcinia ventriculi in the stomach, Oidium alb i cans in thrush, and Leptothrix buccal is among the tartar of the teeth. Birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, ., have also their Entophytes. One of these is Botrytis ba i an a , the muscardine of the silk-worm; another, a Sporendonema, produces the muscardine of the fly, killing it off in large numbers in autumn. Microscopic parasites of plants are very numerous. All are fungi. Thus Botrytis infestans is the potato fungus, and Oidium tucker i the vine mildew. ( Griffith & Henfrey .) en-to-phy-tic, a . [Eng., ., entophyt (e); -ic.] Pertaining or relating to Entophytes ěn-to-ptěr-y-goid, a. & s. [Gr. entos =within, and Eng., ., pterygoid (q. v.).J A. As adjective : Comp. Anat.: Attached internally to the ptery IMG:content-1049.png:[blocks in formation] ogy.]