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1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Amphidiarthrosis, a name given by Winslow to the temporo-maxillary articulation, because, according to that anatomist, it partakes both of ginglymus and arthrodia.

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. Amphidiarthrosis, joint having characteristics of two classes, both hinge and gliding, as articulation of lower jaw.

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Amphidromic.

1938 Nature 11 June 1067/1 The effect of uniting the two waves which will have the higher part of their crests on opposite shores is to produce a set of amphidromic points. These are points at which there is no tidal rise and fall of the water level.

1947 Sci. News 4 92 In the northern hemisphere the tidal oscillation will appear to rotate in an anticlockwise direction round such a point, and cotidal lines, joining points which have high water at the same time, will radiate from it. The point is called an amphidromic point.

1947 Sci. News 4 92 The rotation of the tide-producing forces round the sea also operates so as to produce an amphidromic system.

1909 J. W. Jenkinson Exper. Embryol. 267 One blastomere has a male and a female nucleus, and therefore 2 n chromosomes (amphikaryotic), while the other has only a female (thelykaryotic).

1893 W. N. Parker & H. Rönnfeldt tr. A. Weismann Germ-plasm 20 Amphimixis..consists in the mingling of two individuals or of their germs, and owing to its constant connection with reproduction in multicellular organisms it is usually spoken of as ‘sexual reproduction’... Amongst unicellular organisms..amphimixis is widely spread..in the form of conjugation.

1909 W. R. Sorley Interpr. Evol. 23 It throws off certain cells which have the power of reproducing organisms like itself—this result being dependent in all the higher organisms upon amphimixis.

1913 Amer. Naturalist 47 282 Winkler divides all reproductive phenomena into three divisions, namely: Amphimixis, Pseudomixis, and Apomixis.

1949 C. D. Darlington & K. Mather Elem. Genetics 377 Amphimixis, reproduction by the fusion of two gametes in fertilization. As opposed to Apomixis.

1889 Cent. Dict. Amphineura.

1906 G. Bourne tr. Pelseneer Mollusca ii. 40 When Chaetoderma and Neomenia were investigated from an anatomical point of view, von Jhering united them..in a division of ‘Worms’, which he called Amphineura.

1922 Chambers's Encycl. I. 238/2 Amphineura are primitive gasteropods.

1945 E. Step & A. L. Wells Shell Life 181 The orders [of Gastropoda] are only four, but several..have been divided into sub-orders. The first of these orders (Amphineura) consists of the Mail-shells.

1883 Athenæum 29 Dec. 870/3 Four very distinct phases of development in their mandibles, which the author [sc. F. Leuthner] proposed to term ‘priodont’, ‘amphiodont’, ‘mesodont’, and ‘telodont’.

1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vii. 209 A specimen is classified as Amphiodont if a gap is present which is considered larger than the normal gap between two teeth, Prionodont if it is considered not to exceed this size.

1891 H. M. Bernard & M. Bernard tr. A. Lang Text-bk. Compar. Anat. i. 482 This amphipneustic tracheal system is found in many parasitic or half-parasitic Diptera larvæ.

1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 450 Other larvæ have a pair of stigmata placed at the termination of the body, and another pair near the anterior extremity..; these larvæ are said to be ‘amphipneustic’.

1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) i. 134 Amphipneustic.—Only the prothoracic and the posterior abdominal spiracles are open. This type is a common one among larval Diptera.

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 459 A temple with a portico at each end is said to be amphiprostylar.

1871 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Vertebr. Animals 147 The other amphirhine fishes.