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before a vowel megal-, a. Gr. µεγαλο-, combining form of µέγας great (cf. the equivalent mega-), used in many scientific terms; megalenceˈphalic a. [encephalic], pertaining to or affected with hypertrophy of the encephalon or cerebrum; ˈmegalerg Physics = megerg [see mega- b]; ˈmegaloblast Path. [-blast], one of the nucleated red blood-disks found in the blood of anæmic persons (Syd. Soc. Lex.); hence megaloˈblastic a., containing megaloblasts; ‖ megaloˈcardia Path. [Gr. καρδία heart], the condition of having an abnormally large heart (Dunglison Med. Lex. 1855); megaloˈcarpous a. Bot. [Gr. καρπός fruit], having large fruit (Mayne); megaloceˈphalic a. = megacephalic; so megaloˈcephalous a. (Cent. Dict. 1890); megaloˈcephaly, the condition of being megacephalic; also Path., an enlargement of the head occurring in Leontiasis ossea (Osler Princ. & Pract. Med., ed. 4, 1901, p. 1145); megaloˈchirous a. [Gr. χεῖρ hand], having large hands or large tentacles (Mayne); ˈmegalocyte Path. [Gr. κύτος a hollow], one of the large red blood-corpuscles seen in anæmia (Syd. Soc. Lex.); megaloˈdontous a. Anat. [Gr. ὀδούς tooth], large-toothed (ibid.); ‖ megaloˈgastria Path. [Gr. γαστ(ε)ρ-, γαστήρ stomach + -ia], the condition of possessing great stomach capacity; megalogoˈnidium Bot., a gonidium larger than others produced by the same species (Cent. Dict.); = macrogonidium; ˈmegalopod a. and n. [Gr. πούς foot], (a) adj. having large feet, megalopodous; (b) n. a person with large feet; megaˈlopodous a. [Gr. πούς foot], having a long foot (Syd. Soc. Lex.); ˈmegalopore, one of the larger pores in the dorsal shell of certain chitons; ˈmegalosphere [sphere], the initial chamber of a megalospheric foraminifer; hence megaloˈspheric a., applied to certain foraminifera having a large initial chamber and a single large nucleus.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex., Megalanthus..*megalanthous.
1900Fletcher in Lancet 2 June 1589/1 *Megalencephalic would be a more suitable name [sc. for cerebral hypertrophy].
1873Brit. Assoc. Rep. 225 The mechanical equivalent of one gramme-degree (Centigrade) of heat is 41.6 *megalergs, or 41,600,000 ergs.
1899J. Cagney tr. Jaksch's Clin. Diagn. i. (ed. 4) 43 Microcytes, *megaloblasts and nucleated red corpuscles are also not of rare occurrence.
1900Elder in Lancet 28 Apr. 1199/2 The majority of the cells being of the *megaloblastic type. 1904Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 584 A stage when almost all the red cells are nucleated, and most of them megaloblastic.
1876Dunglison Med. Lex., *Megalocephalic, having an unusually large head. 1878Bartley tr. Topinard's Anthropol. i. v. 176 Megalocephalic, skull of very large capacity.
Ibid. 543 Index, *Megalocephaly.
1889D. J. Hamilton Text-bk. Pathol. I. 462 Giant blood corpuscles or *megalocytes running up to 14 µ in diameter.
1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 485 A stomach otherwise normal, may yet be of extraordinary capacity—a condition which has received such names as megastria and *megalogastria.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Megalopod, a. and n. 1951Auden Nones (1952) 40 The basalt Tombs of the sorcerers shatter And their guardian megalopods Come after you pitter-patter.
1884Moseley in Rep. Brit. Assoc. (1885) 781 A series of pores (‘*megalopores’) by which this surface is covered.
1894Lister in Phil Trans. CLXXXVI. 406 The parent shell is *megalospheric, the *megalosphere being pear-shaped. |