A Dictionary of Scientific Terms: Pronunciation, Derivation, and Definition of Terms in Biology, Botany, Zoology, Anatomy, Cytology, Embryology, Physiology

Abstract

THE present work contains definitions of about 10,000 terms, including several hundred lately coined expressions, many of which have not hitherto appeared in a dictionary. In a first edition all the attempts at 3efinition are not likely to be happy: “cœlom” is “a cavity of the body derived from the mesoblast”; “cœlomoduct,” “the duct leading directly from the genital cavity to the exterior in Cephalopods and in Annulates”; “nephridium,” “any excretory organ, usually the excretory organ of Invertebrates”; “micro-nephridia” is not given, though the obsolete and misleading “plectonephridia” appears; “sclerotome,” “a partition of connective tissue between two myotomes”; “notochord” is not given, though “vertebra” is; “acanthin,” “a substance like chitin, strontium sulphate, forming the skeleton of the Radiolarians”; “nanoplankton,” “microscopic plankton”; “entelechy,” “the realisation of forms in plant and animal life which have the power of reproducing their kind.”

A Dictionary of Scientific Terms: Pronunciation, Derivation, and Definition of Terms in Biology, Botany, Zoology, Anatomy, Cytology, Embryology, Physiology.

By I. F. Henderson Dr. W. D. Henderson. Pp. viii + 354. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1920.) Price 18s. net.