diamorphosis (diamor fosis)

[ Prasiola. On the Diamorphosis of Lyngbya, Schizo gonium, and H. C. Wood , Fresh-Water Algæ, p. 240. diamotosis (dī"a-mō-to's is), n. [NL., μοτός , lint.] In surg ., the introduc tion of lint into a wound. Diana (di-an's or di-a'nä), n. [L., in OL. also Jana (and rarely Deiana ), fem. corresponding to Janus, q. v.; from same root as Diovis = Jo vis, Jupiter, Juno, Dis, and other names of deities: see deity.] 1. In Rom, myth., an original Italian godde dwelling in groves and about fountains, presiding over the moon, and forbidding the approach of man. She was the patron divinity of the plebeians, and her worship was not favored by the patricians. She was later completely identified in characteristics and attributes with the Greek Artemis (which see). 2. [ l. c.] The alchemical name of silver.-3. [NL.] In zoöl.: ( a ) [ l. c.] A large African monkey, Cercopithecus diana:: so called from a fan Diana Monkey ( Cercopithecus diana). cied resemblance of its white coronet to the silver bow of Diana. Also called roloway. (b) A genus of fishes, the type of a peculiar family Dianida; the young state of Luvarus (which see). Ri o, 1826. (c) A genus of Coleoptera, Laporte and Gory, 1837. (d) A genus of Mollusca. Cle in, 1878. - Diana of the Ephesians, or Ephesian Artemis, an ancient Asiatic divinity whose worship was adopted by the Ionian Greeks. She was a personification of the fruitfulne of nature, and was quite distinct from the Greek godde , though a imilated to her by the Ephesians from some resemblance of attributes. She was represented wearing a mural crown and with many breasts, and with the lower part of her body cased, like a mummy, in a sheath bearing mystical figures. dianatict (di-a-nat'ik), [ a. Diana of the Ephesians.- subject to another. Phillips, 1706. From statue in the Museo Nazionale, Naples.