necropsy

[Pref.necro-, and Gr. õpsis sight, view.] A viewing or examination of a dead body. ně-cror-nis, s. [Pref. necr (o)-, and Gr. ornis =a bird.] related to the Musophagide, from the Miocene beds Palæont.: A genus of scansorial birds, probably of France. ( Wallace .) něc-ro-scop-ic, něc-ro-scop-ic-al, a . [Pref. necro-, and Gr. skopeō =to observe, to view.] Pertaining or relating to post-mortem examinations. ně-crōsed', a. [NECROSIS.] Affected with or suffering from necrosis; as, a necrosed bone. make dead; nekros =dead.] ně-cro-sis, s. [Gr. deadne , from nekroō =to Pathology : part without previous softne ; spec., the mortifi 1. Animal : Dry gangrene, slow mortification of a cation or death of a bone. [GANGRENE, Lucifer match disease.] 2. Veget .: The drying-up of a branch of a tree, the wood; canker. commencing with the bark and then extending to *ně-crot-o-mỹ, s. [Gr. nekros = a corpse, and tome cutting; temno =to cut.] Morbid Anat.: The di ection of bodies for the purpose of studying the arrangement and structure IMG:content-1612.png:[blocks in formation] "Nectared lavers strow'd with asphodel." Milton: Comus , 838. něc-tär-ě-ous, a . [Lat. nectareus , from nectar .] Pertaining to or resembling nectar; sweet as nectar. "Then, in the nostrils of the slain she pour'd Nectareous drops."-Pope: Homer's Iliad , xix. 40. něc-tär-e-oŭs-lý, adv . [Eng. nectareous; -ly.] In a nectareous manner. The being re něc-tär-e-oŭs-ne , s. [Eng. nectareous; -ne .] ing to the nectary of a plant. něc-tär-i-al, a. [Eng. nectary; -al.] Pertain něc-tar-if-er-ous, a. [Lat. nectar =nectar, and fero to bear, to produce.] 1. Producing nectar; as, a nectariferous glandule. 2. Having a nectary. nectariferous-tube, s. Bot. The swelled part at the tip of the pedicel in Pelargonium.