Definition of Chalazas

1. chalaza [n] - See also: chalaza

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalazas

chakram
chakrams
chakras
chal
chalah
chalahs
chalan
chalaned
chalaning
chalans
chalasia
chalastic
chalaza
chalazae
chalazal
chalazas (current term)
chalaze
chalazes
chalazia
chalaziferous
chalazion
chalazions
chalcanthite
chalcedonic
chalcedonies
chalcedony
chalcid
chalcid fly
chalcid wasp
chalcidfly

Literary usage of Chalazas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Rymer Jones (1841)
"... the succeeding portion, extending nearly three fourths of its entire length, secretes the albumen and the chalazas; it in the next tract furnishes the ..."

2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Home Farmer (1883)
"In the inner layer of white, O, the yolk is suspended by the chalazas II H. These are spiral springe of more dense albumen, and extend from the middle layer ..."

3. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"The chalazas, as in the eggs of the other reptilia, are absent. There is, of course, no need of them in eggs ..."

4. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"In cases like Fig. i, / the chalazas sometimes appear thin in the middle. This may be due to the faintness of stimulation on the glands or to stretching of ..."

5. Works by William Harvey (1847)
"This I can very well believe ; for these were then 110 proper eggs ; for all eggs, wind eggs as well as those that are prolific, have chalazas But he, ..."

6. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1899)
"... as had been supposed, from the chalazas, or other parts ; and secondly, that the process of development is an " epigenesis," or gradual addition of new ..."

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