cyclo-comb. form

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 248/2 Cyclobranchians.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 485/1 With regard to the marine species [of Limacineans], which Cuvier has approximated to these, M. de Blainville observes that they constitute his genus Peronia in his order of Cyclobranchians.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 388/1 In the Cyclobranchiate order.

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 154 The cyclo-branchiate gill of patella.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cyclocentric, a term applied to those coiled shells which have the starting-point of the spiral at a little distance from the centre, so that the first whorl runs around it.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cyclocephalic, having the characters of a Cyclocephalus. Also, applied to the form of the head of an hydrocephalic person.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Cyclocephalus, a monster having two contiguous eyes, or a double eye in the median line.

1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) iv. 84 Periclinal, cycloclinal or quaquaversal..that is dipping in every direction.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 412/2 The..cyclogangliate..divisions of the animal kingdom.

1838 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 392/2 The nervous system of the Gasteropoda..the most perfect form of the..cyclo-gangliated type.

1933 Nat. Advis. Comm., Techn. Rep. 474 (Nomencl. Aeronaut.) 12/2 Cyclogiro, a type of rotor plane whose support in the air is normally derived from airfoils mechanically rotated about an axis perpendicular to the plane of symmetry of an aircraft, the angle of attack of the airfoils being always less than the angle at which the airfoils stall.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 220/1 Cyclogyro, a rotorcraft depending for its lift on power-driven rotors rotating on horizontal axes.

1931 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms (ed. 2) 77/1 Cyclogram, a record obtained from a cyclograph.

1946 Electronic Engin. 18 378 The Lissajous figure is perhaps the most important type of cyclogram display.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 562 The Cyclograph is an instrument for drawing arcs of circles.

1931 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. Terms (ed. 2) 77/1 Cyclograph, a name sometimes given to an instrument with an optical or electron-jet ‘pointer’ moving in two dimensions under control respectively of different variables.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 220/1 Cyclograph, an instrument in which a beam of light or cathode rays is made to move under the action of two controlling forces at right-angles to each other, thereby producing a closed figure (cyclogram) on the screen.

1933 R. A. W. Watt et al. Applic. Cathode Ray Oscillograph i. 3 Braun also introduced the cyclographic method of using the tube.

1841 C. Anthon Classical Dict. 353 Dionysius, the cyclographer, makes Circe the daughter of Æëtes.

1926 C. Wesenberg-Lund in K. Dansk. Videnskab. Skr. (Natur. & Math.) 8th Ser. XI. 127 The cyclomorphose [in Daphnia cucullata] has been thoroughly studied in many lakes.

1930 K. Dansk. Videnskab. Skr. (Natur. & Math.) 9th Ser. II. 38 The cyclomorphosis is a process of senility.

1930 K. Dansk. Videnskab. Skr. (Natur. & Math.) 9th Ser. II. 37 In the seasonal variations or cyclomorphoses Lauterborn saw accommodations to variations in the external medium.

1939 Q. Rev. Biol. 19 XIV. 137/1 The phenomenon of cyclomorphosis among plankton organisms is particularly well exemplified in fresh-water Cladocera, especially in the group Daphnia cucullata and D. longispina.

1961 S. C. Kendeigh Animal Ecol. vi. 60/1 An interesting phenomenon is cyclomorphosis, a seasonal change in body form that develops in many plankton organisms.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 107/2 An organization..more complex than that of the cyclo-neurose classes.

1902 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 38 1136/2 Difficulty in accommodating for hyoscin commenced in fifteen to eighteen minutes, and there was complete cycloplegia in thirty to forty-eight minutes.

1902 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 38 1135/2 (heading) Comparative values of cycloplegics... Atropin has been the chief reliance of ophthalmologists as a cycloplegic.

1902 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 38 1137/1 Tests possess sufficient accuracy to enable us to select the best out of the candidates for cycloplegic honors, namely hyoscin hydrobromate.

1956 Nature 17 Mar. 523/2 Variable..disturbances of vision, due to cycloplegic and mydriatic actions.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 213/1 The use of cycloplegics (a kind of eye drops) is a conventional clinical method which attempts to determine the intrinsic relation of lens systems to length of eyeball when the accommodation is relaxed.

1889 Cent. Dict. Cyclorhaphous.

1901 G. H. Verrall Brit. Flies VIII. 11 Cyclorrhaphous flies of not at all a leathery texture.

1961 J. E. Collin Brit. Flies VI. 1 It is now more usual to..adopt as the two main divisions the Nematocera and Brachycera with the latter subdivided into the Orthorrhaphous- and Cyclorrhaphous-Brachycera.

1866 Engineer 415 The Cycloscope.

1976 Helv. Chim. Acta LIX. 1480 Cyclosporin A is a cyclic undecapeptide C₆₂H₁₁₁N₁₁O₁₂ which may be isolated from Trichoderma polysporum.

1979 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 8/3 The new drug Cyclosporin A..makes it possible to hope for more transplants for children who are endangered by the standard treatment against organ rejection.

1984 Listener 23 Aug. 4/3 The advent of a new drug to prevent rejection of transplanted organs—cyclosporin—has already led to improvements in survival in adult heart-transplant patients.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 966/2 In the cyclostomatous Fishes..the skeleton is of still more simple structure.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlvii. 427 Some of the cyclostomous fishes..are supposed to connect the fishes with the Annulosa.

1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xxi. 390 The Cyclostomes or suckers, with regard to their skeletons, are the most imperfect of all the Vertebrates.

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 440 Our little cyclostome..the lamprey.

1870 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) I. i. ii. 16 The cyclostome Fishes.

1916 N. Shaw in Nature 4 May 210/1 The motion of air..is persistent because the pressure-gradient is balanced by the centrifugal action of the earth's rotation, which we may call the geostrophic component, and of the curvature of the path over the earth's surface, which we call the cyclostrophic component.

1919 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (Royal Aeronaut. Soc.) 31 The portion of the [pressure] gradient which is balanced by the flow on account of the earth's spin is called the geostrophic component, and the remaining portion, which is balanced by the curvature of the air's path, is called the cyclostrophic component.

1959 R. E. Huschke Gloss. Meteorol. 151 The cyclostrophic wind can be an approximation to the real wind in the atmosphere only near the equator..or in cases of very great wind speed and curvature of the path.

1932 Wanless & Weller in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XLIII. 1003 The word ‘cyclothem’ is..proposed to designate a series of beds deposited during a single sedimentary cycle of the type that prevailed during the Pennsylvanian period.

1957 Encycl. Brit. IV. 844/1 Coals are more important than limestones in identifying cyclothems because most cyclothems include only one coal whereas two or more limestones may occur.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. xii. 208 We call the members of that large constitution-class, from which the schizophrenes are recruited, ‘schizothymes’, and those that correspond to the circular psychotics are called ‘cyclothymes’.

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 236 The mean age of the cyclothyme group is greater than that of the schizothyme.

1951 John o' London's Weekly 9 Nov. 724/3 Dickens was undoubtedly a cyclothyme.

1921 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurot. Constit. 187 Dementia præcox, paranoia and cyclothymia.

1929 P. Mairet tr. A. Adler Probl. Neurosis 27 A cyclothymia beginning late in life.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. xiv. 259 Among cyclothymic temperaments a certain mood-disposition usually goes with a certain psychic tempo.

1925 W. J. H. Sprott tr. E. Kretschmer Physique & Char. xiv. 259 Cyclothymic psychomotility is distinguished by the natural quality of reaction and bodily movement which is now quick, now slow.

1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 353 Most of us..are liable to mild alternations of this kind, moods of ‘excitement’ and of depression... When the liability to such alternations is well marked, the personality is said to be of the cyclothymic type.

1926 W. McDougall Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 356 Cyclo-thymics, in whom periods of energetic euphoria alternate with despondent impotence.

1965 J. Pollitt Depression & its Treatm. iv. 59 In cyclothymic subjects, and those who have suffered from manic episodes, a large dose continued too long may produce hypomanic features.