epax1al

[Gr. epi = upon, over, and Lat. axis; Gr. axōn.] Anat.: Pertaining or relating to muscles lying above the embryonic vertebral axis. They called by Huxley episkeletal muscles. [EPISKELETAL.] There are two divisions of them: a dor so-lateral, consisting chiefly of the long and shorter erector muscles of the spine and head, and a ventro-lateral, as the genio-hyoid, the sternomastoid, and other muscles. are 1673 e-peir-a, 3. [From Gr. epeiryō, Epic and Ionic for eperyō =to pull to; epi =to, toward, and eryō = to draw or drag.] Zool .: A genus of Arachnide, the typical one of the family Epeiride. Epeira diadem a is the garden spider. It has eight eyes, nearly equal in size, on the anterior part of the head. It constructs a web with radiating threads, connected by concentric circles, in the center of which it takes its stand, to await the appearance and entanglement of its prey. ě-peïr-i-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. epeir(a), and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Zool .: A family of Arachnide (Spiders), order Araneid a or Dimerosomata; type Epeira (q. v.). ěp-en-çě-phăl-Ic, a . [Modern Latin epenceph al ( on ), and Eng., ., suff. -ic .] Anat .: Pertaining or relating to the epencephalon; the occipital or back part of the brain. "The epencephalic or occipital vertebra has also a neural and a hæmal arch."-Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., ii. 597.