endo-prefixcomb. form

1950 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 43 548 At the present time the indications for recanalizing endarteriectomy should be restricted to cases of arteritis of non-acute form.

1974 R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery vi. 118/1 In selected patients the condition [sc. intestinal angina] can be ameliorated by arterial bypass or endarterectomy.

1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 64/1 Endarterectomy is now a standard method of reestablishing blood flow through the extracranial arteries of the neck.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 161 An habitual use of alcohol..causes chronic endarteritis.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 196 The term endarteritis is given to an inflammatory thickening of the inner coat of an artery.

1883 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 17 ii. 180 (title) Obliterative endarteritis, and the inflammatory changes in the coats of the small vessels.

1883 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 17 ii. 182 It is now known that the so-called organisation of thrombus is in reality an obliterative endarteritis, in which the thrombus plays merely a passive part.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms Endobiotic, living within as a parasite.

1930 H. M. Fitzpatrick Lower Fungi: Phycomycetes iii. 44 When, in parasitic species, the summer sporangia or resting spores are formed within the host cell they are termed endobiotic (endophytic when the host is a plant, endozoic when it is an animal).

1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 149 The blastoderm differentiates into Ectoblast and Endoblast; this latter undergoing a further differentiation into Coeloblast and Myoblast.

1928 G. H. Carpenter Biol. Insects vii. 152 The insinking of a mass of cells (‘middle plate’) along the axis of the germ-band to form a lower layer (endoblast).

1932 Jrnl. Thoracic Surg. 1 435 By means of closed endobronchial anesthesia..it is possible to maintain complete control of anesthetic concentration in a single lung.

1966 Lancet 31 Dec. 1449/2 Fundamental principles of physics as applied to anæsthesia..are described in some detail, and so also is endotracheal and endobronchial intubation.

1900 tr. J. Deniker Races of Man v. 148 Endocannibalism is but the remains of a natural state of primitive man.

1960 R. Needham & C. Needham tr. R. Hertz Death & Right Hand 44 Endocannibalism..secures for the flesh the most honourable of sepultures.

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 443 One case [of retroversion of uterus] was accompanied by severe endocervicitis.

1882 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 9) II. 113 Since the cartilage grows in every dimension by interstitial expansion, the bone which is invading it (endochondral bone) becomes gradually wider as the ossification advances.

1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 86 Cartilage bones are those which are preformed in cartilage, and include most of the bones of the skeleton. Their growth is often described as endochondral and ectochondral, the former term implying the deposition of membrane bone in the centre of the cartilage, while the latter signifies a deposit of membrane bone on the surface of the cartilage.

1887 Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 415/1 A transverse muscular sphincter, which defines an outer division or ectochone from an inner or endochone.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 795 The..chonae..are divided into an outer part, the ectochone, long and cylindrical, and an inner part, the endochone.

1850 R. P. Thomas tr. P. Cazeaux Theoret. & Pract. Treat. Midwifery 185 The internal or allantoid is essentially vascular, and it has been denominated the endochorion.

1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 121 Endochrome, the granular contents of spores and sporidia.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Endochrome..specially applied to the colouring matter of vegetable cells when any other colour than green.

1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. 11 This aqueous tissue is..within the chlorenchyma (endochylous), as in Cactaceæ.

1901 Nature 19 Sept. 514/1 The Silurian tableland,..its endoclinal and exoclinal structures.

1889 Geol. Mag. Feb. 62 We must naturally expect to find the deepest strata in the ‘fan structure’ (endocline) or pseudo-synclinal form and the highest in the folds of the inverted fan structure (exocline) or pseudo-anticlinal.

1901 Practitioner Mar. 276 The new generation of endocorpuscular parasites.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 403 In addition to these externally visible sclerites, there is a sort of internal skeleton (endocranium or tentorium).

1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. iii. 294 How much more [importance] should we [attach] to its interior or endocrane?

1924 Glasgow Herald 10 May 7 Sir Arthur Keith..delivered..the annual lecture..his subject being ‘Phrenological Studies of the Skull and Endocranial Cast of Sir Thomas Browne’.

1946 Nature 6 July 5/1 The study of endocranial casts assumes some importance in palæontology, and particularly in the palæontology of man and the other primates.

1913 J. B. Cohen Org. Chem. Adv. Students II. iv. 298 Dispersivity..is increased by the double bond in the side-chain (exocyclic) as compared with that in the nucleus (endocyclic).

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 191 The endocyst is invariably flexible and membranous.

1880 Athenæum 23 Oct. 536/1 Within the cell [in Polyzoa] comes the body-wall known as the endocyst.

1963 C. De Duve in De Rueck & Cameron Lysosomes 412 The new term..simply indicates that materials are coming into the cell (endocytosis) rather than going out (exocytosis).

1969 N. S. Cohn Elem. Cytol. (ed. 2) v. 124 Foreign protein or other material could undergo digestion within the cell as a result of such endocytosis (pinocytosis and phagocytosis).

1901 A. B. Basset Elem. Cubic & Quartic Curves 14 All curves of an even degree, except conics, may consist of two or more perigraphic portions which may lie entirely within or entirely without one another.

1927 C. F. Marbut tr. K. D. Glinka Great Soil Groups 34 We propose to designate them as endo~dynamomorphic soils to distinguish them from the ekto~dynamomorphic soils in which external factors predominate over the internal.

1930 Nature 19 July 89 Endodynamomorphic soils are those in which external factors have not yet exerted their full influence and which are therefore immature.

1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. ix. 256 The endodynamomorphic soils are either limited to desert and mountain regions with sparse vegetation or they are to be considered merely as early stages of development of the ectodynamomorphic climax soils.

1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 795 The endogastric septa of Haeckel.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 795/2 Ultimately the coil becomes ventral or endogastric.

1901 Practitioner Mar. 304 The progressive development of the endoglobular parasite.

1899 Proc. Zool. Soc. 705 The middle lobe of the endognath (the proximal division of the lacinia externa in Boas's nomenclature).

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 345 The endognathal palp.

1881 W. B. Carpenter Microscope (ed. 6) §311 These endogonidia..being set free by the dissolution of the wall of the parent-cell soon enlarge.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Endogonium, the contents of the nucule of a Chara.

1888 M. Mackenzie Illness Frederick the Noble 191 I had twice done an endolaryngeal operation on this patient.

1888 M. Mackenzie Illness Frederick the Noble 230 By previously removing a portion endolaryngeally.

1884 Globe 29 Apr. Dr. Hand-Smith's Endoliths at Piccadilly Hall.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Dec. 8/2 Dr. Hand-Smith lent a splendid endolith of Lord Beaconsfield and various endolithic marbles.

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 539/1 The endolymph is in birds as limpid as in the Mammifera.

1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. iii. §1. 449 Waves of sound can and do reach the endolymph of the labryinth by direct conduction through the skull.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 702/2 Endometrial inflammations have been distinguished..as croupy..catarrhal, and the like.

1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes v. 71 Endometrial growth during the ovarian phase of follicular growth.

1922 W. B. Bell in Jrnl. Obstet. & Gynæcol. 29 443 These extra-uterine growths have been described as ‘adenomyomata’ and ‘adenofibromyomata’... I have referred to such tumours as ‘endometriomata’ or as ‘endometriomyomata’ and ‘endometriofibromyomata’. I hope that gynæcologists will adopt this in the place of the older nomenclature.

1962 J. W. Huffman Gynecol. & Obstetr. xlv. 1035 The ovaries are buried in the adherent mass or are converted into endometriotic cysts or endometriomas.

1925 J. A. Sampson in Amer. Jrnl. Obst. & Gyn. 10 462 (title) Inguinal endometriosis (often reported as endometrial tissue in the groin, adenomyoma in the groin, and adenomyoma of the round ligament).

1925 J. A. Sampson in Amer. Jrnl. Obst. & Gyn. 10 462 Ectopic endometrial tissue in the wall of the uterus..has arisen from the direct invasion of the myometrium by the mucosa lining the uterine cavity. We might call such a condition a direct or primary endometriosis of the uterus.

1940 Amer. Jrnl. Obstet. 11 554 Peritoneal endometriosis associated with endometrial cysts of the ovary.

1961 Lancet 23 Sept. 696/2 It is still debatable whether endometriosis can be permanently cured by hormone therapy.

1942 A. H. Curtis Textbk. Gynecol. (ed. 4) xxxiii. 511 Endometriotic tissue lodged in a vein.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. xxvii. 894 Endometriotic lesions of the uterus.

1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 117 Senile endometritis.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 592 Puerperal endometritis.

1918 R. Knox Radiogr. & Radio-therapeutics (1923) ii. 523 Chronic endometritis.

1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Endometrium.

1907 Practitioner Dec. 792 The endometrium was normal.

1912 J. G. Adami & J. McCrae Text-bk. Pathol. 647 The histological appearances of the endometrium in certain stages of the menstrual cycle.

1956 Nature 14 Jan. 59/1 Mechanical irritation of the endometrium during the luteal phase of the œstrous cycle will provoke the formation of decidual cells.

1878 R. T. H. Bartley tr. P. Topinard Anthropol. ii. iii. 244 We shall only mention two of them..endometry [Fr. endométrie] and endoscopy.

1942 Biol. Abstr. 16 1930/2 Chromocenter formation depends on failure of the daughter chromatids to move apart in the endomitoses by which polyploidy occurs.

1943 Biol. Abstr. 17 1344/2 Inner multiplication of chromosomes, i.e., polyploidy arisen through ‘endomitosis’.

1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles xii. 351 The phenomenon of endomitosis has been studied in this bug.

1951 M. J. D. White in G. H. Bourne Cytol. & Cell Physiol. (ed. 2) v. 209 Geitler has also described what he calls ‘endomitotic’ cycles of condensation and decondensation during the formation of endopolyploid nuclei.

1960 L. Picken Organization of Cells iv. 128 This cycle of changes in the chromosomes only becomes linked with the formation of the gigantic quasi-spindle..after the genome population has been built up to a high level by repeated endomitotic divisions. And..the ‘anaphase’ movement does not separate daughter chromosomes.

1908 Practitioner Mar. 319 An acute endo-myocarditis of the infundibulum.

1968 W. A. Stewart in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. 534 The form of standardization prevalent in any one country may be either endonormative, when it is based upon models of usage native to that country, or exonormative, when it is based upon foreign models of usage.

1980 Word 1979 30 43 The Yugoslav–Albanian change involved planned shift from an endonormative to an exonormative mode of standardization.

1984 Eng. World-wide 5 i. 145 The authors come down in favour of endonormative standards for SgE, which would guarantee the satisfaction of internal communicational needs as well as international intelligibility.

1962 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 237 819/1 This enzyme produces scissions at many points along the deoxyribonucleic acid chain and hence can be classed as an endonuclease.

1982 T. M. Devlin Textbk. Biochem. xvii. 802 Some endonucleases have been particularly useful in the development of early methodologies for sequencing of RNA polynucleotides.

1884 P. Geddes in Ency. Brit. XVIII. 261 Endoparasites he [Leuckart] divides according to, etc.

1883 Athenæum 24 Mar. 381/3 Simondsia is a genus of endoparasitic nematodes.

1936 Bergmann & Ross in Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 114 723 It is therefore possible to classify the two types of peptidases as exopeptidases, which are restricted to terminal peptide linkages, and endopeptidases, which are not thus restricted.

1962 A. Spector in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 330 An endopeptidase called β-protease..will attack lens protein in acid pH.

1907 Practitioner June 734 Structural disease of the tricuspid orifice of inflammatory origin..is presumably evidence of an intense and widespread endopericarditis.

1874 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 400 Endophlebitis is hardly seen in an acute form.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. 85 Liber or Inner Bark, or Endophlœum.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 333 A complex mass of fibres, which is attached in part to the endophragms of the thorax in front.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 361 A strong apodeme..passing inwards and forwards meets with its fellow, to form an endophragmal arch, which supports the œsophagus and stomach.

1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 214 Dumortier adds to these names endophyllous..because the young leaves of monocotyledons are evolved from within a sheath.

1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 21 A division..separates, in trees, the bark from the internal part, or endophyte as he [Count de Tristan] terms it.

1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) ii. i. 293 Endophytes..originate from germs which penetrate healthy plants and develop a mycelium.

1887 H. M. Ward tr. J. von Sachs Lect. Physiol. Plants xxiii. 371 (heading) Endophytic parasites.

1898 H. C. Porter tr. E. Strasburger et al. Text-bk. Bot. 308 Some species also are endophytic and inhabit cavities in other plants.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 439/1 There is a reciprocal symbiosis between the Angiosperm and the fungus which is endophytic, only rarely ectophytic.

1935 F. E. Fritsch Struct. & Reprod. Algae I. 155 An endophytic green alga..has been reported in the skin of the carp.

1964 V. J. Chapman in Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 210 The asexual generation is represented by a unicellular endophytic plant.

1876 C. V. Riley in Entomologist 9 110 The larvæ of the Castnians are ..endophytous, boring the stems and roots of Orchids and other plants.

1883 J. E. Ady in Knowledge 15 June 355/2 Its [Amœba's] jelly-like body becomes faintly parcelled out into an outer firm (ectoplasm) and an inner soft (endoplasm) layer.

1934 Nature 19 May 761/2 The endoplasmic streaming which is the most striking feature in the pseudopodium of an amœba is not..present in most other rhizopods.

1955 Sci. News Let. 28 May 338/2 The endoplasmic reticulum.

1853 T. H. Huxley in Brit. & Foreign Med.-Chirurg. Rev. 12 297 To the former..we shall throughout the present article give the name of Periplast, or periplastic substance,..to the latter, that of Endoplast... We regard it as quite certain, that that portion which corresponds with the periplast, forms a continuous whole through the entire plant.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 475/1 On the outer side of the line lie the close-set endoplasts of the deepest layer of the epidermis.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 47 The endoplast may take on more and more definitely the characters of a reproductive organ.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ii. 95 Magosphæra is thus very nearly an endoplastic repetition of the moneran Protomonas.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ii. 96 Nor do any of them exhibit a structure analogous to the endoplastule of the Ciliata.

1842 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. i. x. 161 Occasionally the proper coat of the nucleus is observable in the seed, when it is termed endopleura.

1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 340 The endopleura is generally of a soft and delicate nature.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 310 The endopleurite, likewise, divides into three apophyses.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea iv. 36 In describing a crustacean appendage he [sc. T. H. Huxley] names the first two joints the protopodite, which bears on its extremity on the inner side the endopodite, and on the outer side the exopodite. For these terms the shortened forms exopod and endopod will here be preferred—exopod for exopodite, and endopod for endopodite and protopodite combined.

1959 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 278/2 In the walking legs of crabs and lobsters only the endopod remains, but in the corresponding thoracic limbs of some more primitive Malacostra the exopod is presented as a many-pointed flagellum and is used for swimming.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 94 Two multiarticulate filaments representing an ‘exopodite’ and an ‘endopodite’.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 281 To this end the joints of the endopodite are greatly expanded, and converted into a hemispherical bowl.

1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 218 The inner or endopoditic division of the antenna.

1913 Lancet 19 Apr. 1116/1 The repressing factor in the waking consciousness is named by Freud the endopsychic censor.

1922 J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Introd. Lect. Psycho-anal. 240 The why of the symptom, its tendency, is..always an endo-psychic process.

1927 C. Mackenzie Vestal Fire i. i A frisson that no endo-psychic censor is capable of providing.

1932 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 160 I shall include in the term anxiety that special form which by reason of its endopsychic conditioning is thought of as guilt.

1957 Lancet 15 June 1224/1 The endoradiosonde described here embodies a mechano-chemical transducer that changes its dimensions with pH.

1927 E. de Martonne in Geogr. Rev. XVII. 397 It is convenient to describe each of these two great regions by a single word: we may term through-flowing, or ocean, drainage ‘exoreism’ (ex-o-rḗ-ism, from the Greek ἐξ, out, and ῥεῐν, to flow), interior basin drainage ‘endoreism’ (en-do-rḗ-ism, from ἐν, in, and ῥεῐν).

1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation 404 Endorheism, inland drainage, drainage toward the center of a land mass.

1927 E. de Martonne in Geogr. Rev. XVII. 397 In this paper we shall attempt to define the extent of the endoreic, or interior-basin, domain and explain its causes.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iv. 226 The Caspian basin, into which the Volga drains, adds greatly to the area of the endorheic regions of the north temperate zone.

1869 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 43 The endosarc contains the only organs possessed by the animal.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xii. 659 The line of separation between the endosarc and the ectosarc.

1872 T. G. Thomas Pract. Treat. Dis. Women (ed. 3) 93 If the cervix be dilated, the endoscope may be at once introduced.

1879 F. J. Bumstead & R. W. Taylor Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) i. ii. 87 In learning the use of the Endoscope..commence with the simplest instruments.

1879 F. J. Bumstead & R. W. Taylor Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) i. ii. 90 An endoscopic examination is attempted.

1879 F. J. Bumstead & R. W. Taylor Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) i. ii. 87 Writers on endoscopy.

1883 T. Holmes & J. W. Hulke Syst. Surg. (ed. 3) III. 214 Endoscopy is of very little value in stricture.

1883 Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 261 The ‘endosiphon’, here spoken of for the first time by that name, is the internal tube long known in Actinoceras, and lately demonstrated in Piloceras.

1883 Hyatt in Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 273 The endosiphonal tube is narrow and regular.

1883 A. Hyatt in Proc. 32nd Meeting Amer. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. (1884) 328 The endosiphonate..types [of cephalopods].

1883 Athenæum 30 June 833/1 The muscular and endoskeletal systems of Limulus and Scorpio.

1839–47 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. III. 846/2 The..skeleton and endoskeleton..become appendages one of the other.

1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 30 Some of the fishes..possess no ‘endoskeleton’.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals i. 53 Old Echinoderms have a calcareous endoskeleton.

1951 New Biol. 11 21 Nearly all the effector and receptor organs of nearly all animals are of the type..called endosomatic. Roughly, this means that they are material parts of the organism and are made of the organism's own stuff.

1957 P. B. Medawar Uniqueness Individual vii. 140 Cameras have eye-like and clothes have skin-like functions, and motor-cars the functions endosomatically performed by legs.

1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 415 A reticulation of ectosome on the one side and of endoderm and mesoderm, i.e., endosome, on the other.

1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa vi. 73 In the condition with a single, or one greatly preponderating, mass of chromatin, the nuclear space..presents the appearance of a vesicle containing the chromatin-mass at or near its centre;..the chromatinic mass may be termed..an endosome.

1912 E. A. Minchin Introd. Study Protozoa vi. 76 The endosome..in most cases..is composed of a matrix or ground-substance of plastin in which the chromatin is lodged. An endosome of this kind is termed a karyosome.

1926 G. N. Calkins Biol. Protozoa ii. 59 Endosomes may consist entirely of chromatin..or they may be composed of chromatin and plastin in various combinations.

1961 D. L. Mackinnon & R. S. J. Hawes Introd. Study Protozoa i. 12 The term karyosome (the endosome of some authors) is here used descriptively as the name of any conspicuous, deeply staining body lying in the nuclear sap.

c1850 Nat. Encycl. I. 388 It is also named endosperm.

1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xv. 302 The endosperm is not actually united with..the embryo.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 227 A special mass of tissue, the so-called Endosperm.

1875 M. C. Cooke Fungi 23 The covering of the spore is double consisting of an exospore and an endospore.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 277 An external rough dark-brown exospore and an inner endospore.

1868 W. K. Parker Monogr. Struct. & Devel. Shoulder-girdle & Sternum Vertebrata 66 In all the known Urodela the endosteal deposits are entirely ruled by the much earlier and more potent ectosteal sheath.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 515 The endosteal membrane..lines the bone.

1885 W. K. Parker in Proc. Royal Soc. 29 Jan. 135 This malleus in its articular part has two endosteal and one ectosteal bony centre.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 39 This merely endosteally ossified bone.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 309 Each endosternite is distinguishable into three apophyses.

1869 W. B. Carpenter Physiol. (ed. 7) 45 [The shaft of a bone] is lined by a..delicate layer of the same tissue, to which the term ‘endosteum’ is applied.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 341 And the plate [in Astacus] which stretches backwards and supports the labrum, within its posterior forked boundary, is the endostoma.

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 155 In the language of Mirbel, exostome in the outer integument, and endostome in the inner integument.

1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. vi. 277 When the ovule has two coats, the foramen of the outer one is called Exostome, of the inner Endostome; literally the outer and the inner orifice.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 38 Ossified both by ectostosis and Endostosis.

1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish iv. 194 This zone [sc. the ectostracum] may be distinguished from the endostracum which makes up the rest of the exoskeleton.

1960 I. F. Henderson & W. D. Henderson Dict. Sci. Terms (ed. 7) 160/2 Endostracum... The inner layer of mollusc shell.

1856 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca iii. 345 In Salpa..the dorsal sinus contains the long tubular filament..called the endostyle.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals x. 597 On each side of the endostyle the posterior part of the hæmal wall of the pharynx presents two oval apertures.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals x. 612 The endostylic cone elongates.

1833 Athenæum 10 Feb. 188/3 Edwards and Haime described..the absence of endothecal dissepiments.

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 128 The lining of the anther has received particular illustration from M. Purkinje, who calls it endothecium.

1959 A. S. Foster & E. M. Gifford Compar. Morphol. Vascular Plants xix. 495 This well-marked outer layer of the microsporangium wall is usually designated as endothecium.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 150 The lymphatic capillaries have an endothelial covering.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 225 The tubercles present the typical endothelioid and giant-celled structure.

1872 E. R. Peaslee Ovarian Tumors 5 The endothelium of blood-vessels.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 189 The layer of epithelium thus lining a serous cavity is called endothelium.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 227 Their endothelia are more easily separated.

1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. v. 249 These processes..are found chiefly in the head and thorax in many orders of the Insecta..where they form a complicated structure known as the ‘endothorax’.

1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) i. 60 Under the term endothorax is included the endoskeleton of the thorax.

1905 A. C. Abbott Princ. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxv. 568 We now regard the toxic action of these bacteria to be due to the formation of endotoxins or intracellular toxins.

1907 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 923 The serum injected into the patient has brought about a local disintegration of the gonococci and a liberation of endotoxins.

1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) vi. 67 The toxins of bacteria which do not produce exotoxins are termed endotoxins and are thought to be firmly bound to the bacterial proteins in a non-diffusible form.

1910 Practitioner June 861 Endotracheal stenosis, due to syphilis.

1962 Lancet 28 Apr. 879/2 To protect the patient against obstruction of the airway, endotracheal intubation with a cuffed tube is highly desirable during abdominal surgery.