Aponeurosis
in anatomy, a name from it. of certain grayish-white shining mem- APONEUROSIS, in anatomy, a name of certain grayish-white shining memsometimes continuous with the muscular fiber, and differing from tendons merely in having a flat form. They serve sevfiber, and differing from tendons merely muscles to the bones, sometimes surrounding the muscle and preventing its displacement, etc.
APOPHYGE APOPHYGE (ap-of'e-ge or ap'ō-fig), in architecture, the small curve at the top of a column by which its shaft joins its capital. It is sometimes called the spring of the column. Originally it was the ring which bound the extremities of wooden pillars to keep them from splitting, imitated in stone-work. The same name is given to the corresponding concavity connecting the bottom of a pillar with the fillet at its base.
APOPHYLLITE (ap-of'il-it), a tetragonal mineral, called also ichthyophthalmite, classed by Dana as the type of an apophylite group of unisilicates. Color, white or grayish; occasionally with greenish, yellowish, rose-red or flesh-red tint. It is generally transparent; is brittle, and has feeble double refraction. It is "hydrated drated calceopotassic silicate." It occurs chiefly in amygdaloid, though occasionally in granite and gneiss. It is found at Ratho, near Edinburgh, and in Fife, Dumbarton and Inverness-shires.
It occurs in Europe, in India, in Siberia, in America, in Australia and elsewhere.