Onomatopoiesis

(on-o-mat-o-poi-e'-sis). The extemporaneous formation of words by the insane. Words so formed arc generally meaningle , or incorrect, but are sometimes quite UM losmodium (on-oz-mo' -de-um). A genus of boraginaceous plants. O. hispidum, O. virginianum, a plant of the genus of Boraginaceae, growing in the Eastern and Middle States; it has been used in gonorrhea and ses of the bladder. Unof. t Oogenesis (on - to -Jen' - es - is). The development of the individual ell into the mature being. Cytogenetic (on-to-jen-ef -ik). Pertaining to ontogenesis. See also it ion. '. togeny (on-toj' -en-e), n biology, the history of the development of the in. ividual; it is a short recapitulation of the history of the, ace, or phylogeny, q. v.; that is, every animal pa es n to its descendants by inheritance, not only its or an i zati on at an adult stage, but also its own course of evelopment. (Lang.) C to graphic (on-to-graf '-ik). Of, or pertaining to, Ontography. C tography (ontog' -ra-fe). A description of beings, their nature and ence. C toidic (on-to-id'-ik). In biology, Weismann's term for le ontogenetic stages of the idioplasm from the heredary substance or germ-plasm forming the first ontolic stage and preceding the division of the egg-cell the natural death of the organism. C ologic (on-to-loj/-ik). ertaining to ontology. Q ology (on-tol' -o-je), he metaphysical inquiry into the nature and e ential uality of beings, or of being in the abstract. Accordlig to Flourens, one of the divisions of physiology. j. Biology, the study of life proper. B. Ontology, the 'udy of living beings, which he divides into Neon. O., Medical, a view which d'gards diseases as distinct entities, iphin (on'-u-fin), A substance objined from the rings of a species of worm, the Onu is tubicola. It forms a white ma resembling pipeiv, di olving easily in water. 0 cha trophi a (on-ik-at-ro'-fe-ah). Atrophy of the nails. 0 chauxe, Onychauxis (on-ik-a-oks'-e, on-ik-awks' 'is):e nail; attjr/, increase.