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mortis (medicine) and pineal (iou)


mortis (medicine)


mortis -->
death


1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval.

Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in General, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. Black death. Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Death adder.

<zoology> A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); so called from the virulence of its venom. A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidae, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica.

Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the Other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of Nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in General; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.

Origin: OE. Deth, dea, AS. Dea; akin to OS. D, D. Dood, G. Tod, Icel. Daui, Sw. & Dan. Dod, Goth. Daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Dead.


pineal (iou)



pineal adjective & noun. L17.
[French pineal, from Latin pinea pine cone (from the organ's shape in humans): see -AL1.]
Anatomy.
A. adjective.
1. pineal gland, pineal organ, pineal body, a small outgrowth behind and above the third ventricle of the brain, which has an endocrine function, in some vertebrates forming a light-sensitive median eye (pineal eye) involved in control of circadian rhythms, and in others secreting melatonin. L17.
2. Pertaining to, connected with, or forming part of the pineal gland. L19.
B. noun. The pineal gland. E20.
pinea'lectomize verb trans. perform pinealectomy on E20.
pinea'lectomy noun (an instance of) surgical removal of the pineal gland E20.
pine'alocyte noun an epithelioid cell characteristic of the pineal gland, which secretes melatonin and Other hormones M20.
pinea'loma noun, pl. -mas, -mata , Medicine a tumour of the pineal gland, thought to arise from the parenchymal cells E20.