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‖n.; pl. Osteosarcomata [ NL. See Osteo-, and sarcoma. ] (Med.) A tumor having the structure of a sarcoma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

A combining form from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh-eating; sarcology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sarcobases [ NL., fr. Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; base. ] (Bot.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + -blast. ] (Zool.) A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + Gr. &unr_; fruit: cf. F. sarcocarpe. ] (Bot.) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. M. T. Masters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; tumor: cf. F. sarcocèle. ] (Med.) Any solid tumor of the testicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. sarcocolla, from Gr. &unr_;; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; glue: cf. F. sarcocolle. ] A gum resin obtained from certain shrubs of Africa (Penaea), -- formerly thought to cause healing of wounds and ulcers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; fleshy; sa`rx, flesh + e'i^dos form. Cf. Sarcoid. ] (Biol.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. sarcoderma. See Sarco-, and Derm. ] (Bot.) (a) A fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments. (b) A sarcocarp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to sarcode. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Sarcode. ] (Biol.) Resembling flesh, or muscle; composed of sarcode. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sarco- + lactic. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Relating to muscle and milk; as, sarcolactic acid. See Lactic acid, under Lactic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; rind, skin. ] (Anat.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Min.) Flesh-colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to sarcology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sarco- + -logy: cf. F. sarcologie. ] That part of anatomy which treats of the soft parts. It includes myology, angiology, neurology, and splanchnology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Sarcomata E. sarcomas [ NL., from Gr. &unr_;, from sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Med.) A tumor of fleshy consistence; -- formerly applied to many varieties of tumor, now restricted to a variety of malignant growth made up of cells resembling those of fetal development without any proper intercellular substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to sarcoma; resembling sarcoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. See Sarcophagus. ] (Zool.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n. [ NL., fem. sing. See Sarcophagus. ] (Zool.) A genus of Diptera, including the flesh flies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Feeding on flesh; flesh-eating; carnivorous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. L. Sarcophagi E. Sarcophaguses [ L., fr. Gr. sarkofa`gos, properly, eating flesh; sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf. Sarcasm. ] 1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sarkofagi`a. See Sarcophagus. ] The practice of eating flesh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sacro- + Gr. &unr_; a lover. ] (Zool.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., from Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + ko`ptein to cut. ] (Zool.) A genus of parasitic mites including the itch mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of the genus Sarcoptes and related genera of mites, comprising the itch mites and mange mites. -- a. Of or pertaining to the itch mites. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh + &unr_; beak. ] (Zool.) A division of raptorial birds comprising the vultures. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sarcosepta [ Sarco- + septum. ] (Zool.) One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance, formed in the decomposition of creatin (one of the constituents of muscle tissue). Chemically, it is methyl glycocoll. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Med.) (a) Abnormal formation of flesh. (b) Sarcoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. sarcotique. ] (Med.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh. [ R. ] -- n. A sarcotic medicine. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh. ] (Anat.) Fleshy; -- applied to the minute structural elements, called sarcous elements, or sarcous disks, of which striated muscular fiber is composed. [ 1913 Webster ]