Actinotrocha :: Actinotrocha (n. pl.) A peculiar larval form of Phoronis, a genus of marine worms, having a circle of ciliated tentacles..

Amphitrocha :: Amphitrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

Antitrochanter :: Antitrochanter (n.) An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

Atrocha :: Atrocha (n.) A kind of chaetopod larva in which no circles of cilia are developed.

Atrocious :: Atrocious (a.) Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds..

Atrocious :: Atrocious (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity..

Atrocious :: Atrocious (a.) Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers..

Atrocities :: Atrocities (pl. ) of Atrocit.

Atrocity :: Atrocity (n.) Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

Atrocity :: Atrocity (n.) An atrocious or extremely cruel deed.

Cephalotrocha :: Cephalotrocha (n.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

Ditrochean :: Ditrochean (a.) Containing two trochees.

Ditrochee :: Ditrochee (n.) A double trochee; a foot made up of two trochees.

Electrocute :: Electrocute (v. t.) To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cution, n. [Recent; Newspaper words].

Entrochal :: Entrochal (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, entrochites, or the joints of encrinites; -- used of a kind of stone or marble..

Entrochite :: Entrochite (n.) A fossil joint of a crinoid stem.

Epitrochlea :: Epitrochlea (n.) A projection on the outer side of the distal end of the humerus; the external condyle.

Epitrochlear :: Epitrochlear (a.) Relating to the epitrochlea.

Epitrochoid :: Epitrochoid (n.) A kind of curve. See Epicycloid, any Trochoid..

Gastrocnemius :: Gastrocnemius (n.) The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg.

Gastrocolic :: Gastrocolic (a.) Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum..

Gastrotrocha :: Gastrotrocha (n.) A form of annelid larva having cilia on the ventral side.

Gritrock :: Gritrock (n.) Alt. of Gritston.

Hypotrochoid :: Hypotrochoid (n.) A curve, traced by a point in the radius, or radius produced, of a circle which rolls upon the concave side of a fixed circle. See Hypocycloid, Epicycloid, and Trochoid..

Iatrochemical :: Iatrochemical (a.) Of or pertaining to iatrochemistry, or to the iatrochemists..

Iatrochemist :: Iatrochemist (n.) A physician who explained or treated diseases upon chemical principles; one who practiced iatrochemistry.

Iatrochemistry :: Iatrochemistry (n.) Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body, and who endeavored to explain the conditions of health or disease by chemical principles..

Infratrochlear :: Infratrochlear (a.) Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve..

Intertrochanteric :: Intertrochanteric (a.) Between the trochanters of the femur.

Introcession :: Introcession (n.) A depression, or inward sinking of parts..

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