The microbe itself changes its aspect somewhat, grows rather larger than in the pig, and appears in the form of an 8, without the filiform lengthening out characteristic of certain other cultures.
The mouth is encircled with a single series offiliform tentacula, which, like those of the whole family, are depressed or incomplete on one side.
Others have the body fashioned in the form of a corkscrew, turning unceasingly upon themselves with great rapidity; these are the Spirillidæ, having an oblong fusiform or filiform body, which undulates or turns spirally upon itself.
The edges of the umbrella or mushroom are entire or dentate, sometimes elegantly figured, often ciliate, or provided with long filiform appendages which float vertically in the water.
They are filiform animals, extremely slender, without appreciable organization, internal stomach, or apparent organs of locomotion.
The tentacles are long and filiform and are constantly moving about as in the allied genus Planorbis.
They delight in gliding rapidly about, their long, filiformtentacles waving about like a whip in the hands of an impatient driver.
H are seen the longfiliform external gills which now project out from all the visceral clefts, including the spiracle.
In all the Coelenterata, except the Ctenophora, the contractile elements of the body wall consist of filiform processes of ectodermal or entodermal epithelial cells (figs.
It is about a half inch high, with filiform stem, and few, superficial perithecia.
Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form chain of filiform individuals.
That which resembles silk, as the filiformstyles of the female flower of maize.
A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawbwrry.
We must not omit a reference to a Lilliputian gentian, thefiliform gentian of Linnæus, and the Exacum filiforme or Cicendia filiformis of other botanical authorities.
In the axis of each radial tube runs a delicate axial filament, which is connected with its thin and fragile wall either by filiform transverse branches or by delicate transverse septa.
The closely allied Sagosphaerida differ from them in the delicate shape of the solid and very thin, filiform rods of the network, and its subregular {1591}triangular meshes.
The edges of the pyramids are formed by filiform bars similar to those which compose the original lattice-work of the Sagosphaerida.
The filiform bars, or the thread-shaped, very long and thin rods between the triangular meshes, are scarcely less characteristic of the Sagosphaerida than the form and size of the meshes.
The ovary is oblong, terminating in a filiform style, with a pointed stigma, as shown at g in fig.
The difference between the genera consists principally in the carpels, which in Hibbertia are distinct with long filiformstyles curving inwards.
There are five stamens, a filiform style, and a capitate stigma.
Adjust a rubber teat to the pipette and by pressure on the bulb gradually drive the mercury in an unbroken column down the capillary tube until it is stopped by the filiform extremity.
Introduce the capillary tube into this barrel with the filiform extremity uppermost, and the square cut end projecting about 0.
Branches are irregularly distantly alternate, solitary or rarely two, swollen at base, dividing into slender filiform spreading branchlets; the lower branches from 3 to 7 inches in length and getting shorter upwards.
The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
The inflorescence is of several slender spikes, usually drooping, 2 to 4 inches; the rachis is filiform and trigonous.
The plant consists of prostrate stems and stolons, filiform and wiry.
Dictyosiphon foeniculaceus, the solitary British example of its genus, is a bushyfiliform plant, remarkable for the beautiful net-like markings of its surface.
There are few objects more beautiful than many of the sea-weeds when well preserved; but the filiform species, especially those of the first sub-order, do not retain their distinguishing characters when pressed as has been described.
Polysiphonia and Dasya contain the finest of the filiform division; the leafy one, Odonthalia, a northern form, is a very beautiful sea-weed both as respects form and colour.
The filiform papillae are generally long and pointed and are found over the entire surface of the tongue.
The last or anal joint of the body very minute; exerting two short, filiform horns, or rather respiratory organs.
A rather late annual, with narrow flat leaves, and a contracted or spreading panicle with numerousfiliform branches and very numerous small shining spikelets.
Fertile flower a single 4-celled ovary, either sessile or pedicelled, bearing 2 distinct and filiform sessile, usually persistent stigmas.
Submersed leaves reduced to narrowly grass-like or filiform sessile phyllodia.
Fruit with the secondary ribs the most prominent, winged and armed with barbed or hooked prickles, the primary ribs filiform and bristly.
The filament is usually, as its name imports, filiform or thread-like, and cylindrical, or slightly tapering towards its summit.
In unisexual flowers it is not uncommon to find vestiges of the undeveloped stamens in the form of filiform bodies or scales.
Two or more slender, filiform or setaceous, jointed, flexile anal organs[1146].
The fourth type is presented by the short filiformantennae of Termes; the fifth by the setaceous ones of Corydalis, Hemerobius, &c.
Another in my collection has only four upper radii, but below the anus are two fleshy filiform tentacula.
Perla are oval, and each of them attached to a filiform pedicle not thicker than a hair, and seven or eight times as long as the egg.
The third is that of Psocus, in which the antenna has two short thick joints at the base, terminated by a long filiform bristle, consisting of seven or eight joints, and finer than a hair.
On the belly near the anus these males have four fleshy appendages, the posterior ones setaceous and long, and the anterior pair filiform and shorter.
The styles do not taper to a point, but are filiform and acute.
The antennae of Coleopterous larvae are usually either filiform or setaceous, consisting of four or five joints, nearly equal in length.
Onitis Aygulus a shortfiliform horn arms the humerus, and a longer crooked one that of many species of Scaurus[2021].
A great number of filiform and setaceous antennae of Predaceous beetles (Cicindela L.
Trophosome, polyps with an upper circlet of numerous capitate tentacles, and a lower circlet of filiform tentacles.
Trophosome, polyps with scattered filiform tentacles; gonosome, medusae or gonophores, the medusae with hollow tentacles.
Tentacles with a bilateral arrangement, branched tentacles in addition to simple filiform ones; type of Branchiocerianthus.
Tentacles filiform or capitate, tending to be arranged in definite whorls; type of Stauridium (fig.
Trophosome, polyp with filiform tentacles in three or four whorls.
With filiform tentacles; the commonest type, seen in Bougainvillea (fig.
The objective symptoms are the peculiar dark or black discoloration of the upper surface of the tongue and the excessively elongated filiform papillae.
The filiformpapillae become elongated to several times their normal length, and feel and look like so many hairs on the tongue.
The adult intestinal trichina is a minute, filiform white worm, thicker behind and tapering forward.
The filiform papillae are enormously elongated, so that they closely resemble hairs, and they are described by some writers as lying upon the surface of the tongue in confusion like that of a field of wheat thrown down by the wind.
The filiform end is brought out the mouth sufficiently far to attach a silk braided cord which is then pulled down and out of the gastrostomic opening.
Anus terminating in a mucro, and sometimes in a filiform jointed tail without a sting at the end.
Locusta, is also distinguished by antennae at firstfiliform and then setaceous.
The dorsal part of this web gives birth to seven pairs of filiform muscles, which traverse the liver, and are attached to a muscular riband which, passing above the lungs, runs the whole length of the ventral parietes.
We may conclude in general, that the secretory organs are membranous sacs or vesicles, perhaps terminating in longer or shorter blind filiform vessels, sometimes secreting a fetid fluid, and at others a fetid gaseous effluvium.
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