An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
A division of vermiformgastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.
A kind of zooid of Siphonophora which has an elongated or even vermiform body, with one tentacle, but no mouth.
No odds on a bet of this nature to a seeress who has already jarred me from soul to vermiform appendix by making good!
Following the ham and eggs, Mr. Webster planned to saturate himself from soul to vermiform appendix with nicotine, which he purposed obtaining from tobacco with nicotine in it.
The vermiform and retractile tongue is also a most singular organ.
Such, indeed, are the small vermiform Snakes already referred to, as being foolishly considered Venemous by most natives of India.
Among the true Osseous Fishes the Eels must undoubtedly range the lowest on account of their vermiform and asquamous body, and the want of ventral fins.
The inferior vermiform process is subdivided into a posterior part or pyramid; an elevation or uvula, situated between the two tonsils; and an anterior pointed process or nodule.
Prescott reports a case of what he calls fatal colic from the lodgment of a chocolate-nut in the appendix; and Noyes relates an instance of death in a man of thirty-one attributed to the presence of a raisin-seed in the vermiform appendix.
Howe describes a case in which a double oat, with a hard envelope, was found in the vermiform appendix of a boy of four years and one month of age.
But to return to matters of importance, I should be very happy to see the proofs of your paper upon the vermiform appendix.
These castings, which retained perfectly their vermiform shape, were collected; and they weighed when partially dried, 1 lb.
This latter fact was sometimes made evident, when a worm had subsequently bored through a flat circular disc of this kind, and heaped up a fresh vermiform mass in the centre.
Tracks of worms, made during the previous night, could be seen on the surface of the floor, and five or six vermiform castings had been thrown up.
On the comparative anatomy of the vermiform appendix, by James M'Murdo O'Brien," said the Professor sonorously.
This contact seems to communicate to the vermiform body a special vital energy, which is immediately directed towards the production of a somewhat filamentous tissue, on which the hymenium is at a later period developed.
Is it not possible that the larva of Crossopodia may have developed a vermiform Echinoderm?
And, as a question of development, the formation of the radiate Echinoderm within its vermiform larva seems to me to be analogous to the formation of a radiate Medusa upon a Hydrozoic stock.
Very spirit of the Salvation Army, when some third-rate scientist comes out with an explanation of the vermiform appendix or the os coccygis that would have been acceptable to Moses.
The life of this insect in its vermiform state is very short, and it passes through different states till it gradually arrives at its greatest degree of perfection.
Why is the vermiform appendix so much more virtuous and dignified than its next-door neighbor, the cæcum?
And chitterlings--the excised vermiform appendix of the cow.
The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.
Class I was small and exclusive; when I had put in the heart, the brain, the hair, the eyes and the vermiform appendix, I had exhausted all the candidates.
Below his heart he has only a stomach and a vermiform appendix.
Defn: Resembling a worm in form or motions; vermicular; as, the vermiform process of the cerebellum.
Defn: A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.
The greater part of the body-cavity is taken up with the liver, from the middle part of which the caecum and the vermiform appendix protrude.
This "vermiform appendage" is very interesting as a rudimentary organ.
The atrophied end of the caecum is the famous rudimentary organ, the vermiform appendix.
It is remarkable that this organ is practically identical with the vermiform appendage of anthropoid apes, yet none of the other monkeys present any such resemblance with men.
The vermiform appendage of the coecum is not only practically useless, but the source of that extremely dangerous complaint, appendicitis.
In a few hours the transformations will commence and go on continuously until the vermiform condition is attained.
Vix has also asserted that free vermiform embryos are occasionally to be detected in the intestine of the human bearer along with the eggs; this hatching within the lower bowel, however, must, in my opinion, be regarded as exceptional.
According to Heller, the simplest way to rear the vermiform stage of Oxyuris is to put a number of the eggs in a glass tube filled up with saliva.
Under suitable conditions the tadpole-shaped embryos rapidly assume a vermiform character.
At length, by spreading a portion of the membrane of the valve over a large glass slide, and by allowing it to dry slowly, I found that the vermiform body presented neither beginning nor end.
Small seeds and other substances have been found in the vermiform appendix, which is a hollow tube over an inch in length.
Therefore it is resolved, that as nothing positive is known of the trouble in the location above described, it is guessed that it is a disease of the vermiform appendix.
In the diagnosis this is a well-defined case of appendicitis; the surgeon's knife is driven through the quivering flesh in great eagerness in search of the vermiform appendix.
To get more directly at the point I want to make I will say I have some reasons to believe that the lower bowels are builded from rectum to the vermiform appendix, by acts of pelvis.
In some of the cases, though very few, seeds and other substances have been found in the vermiform appendix, supposed to be the cause of local or general inflammation of the appendix.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vermiform" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: serpentine; snaky; wormy
