"Chondroma" is a word in ENGLISH
A cartilaginous tumor or growth.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which …
Read the complete definitionThe material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first …
Read the complete definitionA small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce.
Read the complete definitionSee Cartilaginous.
Read the complete definitionHaving the skeleton in the state of cartilage, the bones containing little or no calcareous matter; said of certain fishes, …
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to cartilage; gristly; firm and tough like cartilage.
Read the complete definitionThe anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.
Read the complete definitionA cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is …
Read the complete definitionA colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is …
Read the complete definitionA combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates …
Read the complete definitionAn order of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so called on account of their cartilaginous skeleton.
Read the complete definitionHaving a cartilaginous skeleton.
Read the complete definitionA group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians (sharks), but …
Read the complete definitionAn order of fishes, including the sturgeons; -- so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.
Read the complete definitionA term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the …
Read the complete definitionThe skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; …
Read the complete definitionA subclass of fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimaera. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.
Read the complete definitionA cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.
Read the complete definitionThe bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
Read the complete definitionA ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.
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