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Comparative Anatomy – Concha

Comparative Anatomy

as distinguished from special anatomy; the science which examines and compares the structure of two or more different kinds of animals, so as to discover their points of resemblance and unlikeness; and as such it is a most important department of the science of biology.

Compensation

that which is given or received as an equivalent for services rendered, losses sustained, sufferings endured, or in payment of a debt; amends, remuneration, payment, recompense.

Compline

the last of the daily canonical hours in the Roman Catholic breviary; the complement of the Vespers or evening office.

Composition

an arrangement which a bankrupt or person in pecuniary difficulties makes with his creditors, and by which he arranges to pay them a certain proportion only of the debts due.

Composts

in agriculture, are mixtures of various fertilizing substances.

Compound Animal

an animal which, originally simple, develops into a few fe or many others, which retain physical connection with the parent instead of being sooner or later detached in the normal way.

Compound Fracture

a fracture in which the bone is broken and the surrounding integuments have been pierced, making a wound from the external surface to the seat of the fracture.

Compounding of Felony

the accepting of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute; or the agreeing to receive one's goods again from a thief on condition of not prosecuting. This is an offense punishable by fine and imprisonment.

Comus

in later Greek mythology, a divinity of festive mirth, represented as a winged youth, sometimes drunk and languid as after a debauch, or slumbering in a standing posture with legs crossed. Comus thus becomes the representative deity of riotous merry-making, of tipsy dance and jollity.

Conception

in physiology, the first formation of the embryo of an animal; the first animation of the ovum at the moment when it escapes from the ovarium, passing through the Fallopian tube to the uterus.

In mental philosophy: (1) The cognition of classes, as distinguished from individuals; that special

Conceptualism

the distinctive speculative opinion, or opinions, of the conceptualists.

Concha

JOSE GUTIERREZ DE LA, a Spanish soldier and statesman, born in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1809. He served in the Spanish army and was appointed captain-general of Cuba. In 1862 was made a minister to France, and between 1864-68 served as president in the Spanish senate. He died in 1895. put