Definition of external

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External (a.) Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom..

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Pachyote :: Pachyote (n.) One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears..
Parotic :: Parotic (a.) On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.
Ectorganism :: Ectorganism (n.) An external parasitic organism.
Helix :: Helix (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.
Optogram :: Optogram (n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.
Conchal :: Conchal (a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage..
Entoperipheral :: Entoperipheral (a.) Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral..
Hydropathy :: Hydropathy (n.) The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally..
Intestine :: Intestine (a.) Internal; inward; -- opposed to external.
Epiperipheral :: Epiperipheral (a.) Connected with, or having its origin upon, the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to the feelings which originate at the extremities of nerves distributed on the outer surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral..
External :: External (a.) Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
Breastsummer :: Breastsummer (n.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows..
Ectomere :: Ectomere (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals..
Signature :: Signature (v. t.) A resemblance between the external characters of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; -- supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease..
Pineapple :: Pineapple (n.) A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American..
Ectoderm :: Ectoderm (n.) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm..
Caddis :: Caddis (n.) The larva of a caddice fly. These larvae generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm..
Sensation :: Sensation (n.) An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, produced either by an external object (stimulus), or by some change in the internal state of the body..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) One of the external openings of the tracheae of insects, myriapods, and other arthropods; a spiracle..
Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..
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