"Heteromyaria" is a word in ENGLISH
A division of bivalve shells, including the
marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See
Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
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 uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
Read the complete definitionThat division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they …
Read the complete definitionThe division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the …
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Read the complete definitionA large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a …
Read the complete definitionThe division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the …
Read the complete definitionOne in favor of an equal division of landed property.
Read the complete definitionRelating to lnnd, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agra-rlan law
Read the complete definitionAn equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
Read the complete definitionA lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or …
Read the complete definitionThe division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Read the complete definitionPartition, apportion-ment, division; the distribution of land un-der an inclosure act, or shares ln a public undertaking or corporation
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic.
Read the complete definitionThat division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.
Read the complete definitionThe achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging …
Read the complete definitionA division of insects having aquatic larvae.
Read the complete definitionA division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
Read the complete definitionThe division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.
Read the complete definitionOne of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.
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