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Antiptosis :: Antiptosis (n.) The putting of one case for another.

Leptostraca :: Leptostraca (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea, including Nebalia and allied forms..

Metemptosis :: Metemptosis (n.) The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years..

Paremptosis :: Paremptosis (n.) Same as Parembole.

Proemptosis :: Proemptosis (n.) The addition of a day to the lunar calendar.

Ptosis :: Ptosis (n.) Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle..