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Temporal Bone – Terebamic Acid

Temporal Bone

in anatomy, a bone articulating posteriorly and internally with the occipital bone, superiorly with the parietal, anteriorly with the sphenoid, the malar, and the inferior maxillary bone. It constitutes part of the side and base of the skull, and contains in its interior the organ of hearing.

Temryuk

a fortified town of south Russia, in the Kuban district of the Cau- TEMRYUK, a fortified town of south casus; on a peninsula on the S. side of the Sea of Azov, in the bay of Temryuk.

Tenafly

a borough of New Jersey, the Sea of Azov, in the bay of Temryuk. tial town. It has manufactures of cloth and window shades. It has a hospital, a home for the aged, and several other in and window shades. It has a hospital, a home for the aged, and several other in- 3,585.

Tenerife

PEAK OF

Tenerife

PEAK OF, or PICO DE

Tenerife

PEAK OF is white. There is an ice cave at an portant state offices, and attended Mary altitude of 11,000 feet. The peak can be seen more than 100 miles off. In 1795 and 1798 there was volcanic activity here.

Tennyson

FREDERICK, an English poet, brother of Alfred; born in Louth, Lincolnshire, June 5, 1807. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1828 took the medal for a Greek poem. He published various volumes of verse, including "Days and Hours" (1854); "The Isles of Greece" (1890); "Daphne, and Other Poems" (1891). He died in London Feb. 26, 1898.

Teplitz

a watering place in Bohemia; situated in a beautiful valley near are taken exceedingly hot, and have the Erzgebirge; 20 miles N. W. of Leitmeritz. The baths are supplied from about a dozen hot alkalo-saline springs, great virtue in restoring persons afflicted with gout, rheumatism, etc. One of the springs is used also for drinking. Pop. about 27,000.

Terai

or TURRYE, the name of the narrow strip of swampy jungle which uniformly underlies the lowest ridge of

Terbium

in chemistry, a metal, supposed by Mosander in 1843 to exist, together with erbium and yttrium, in gadolinite. Subsequent investigations have thrown considerable doubt on its existence, and it is now believed to be yttria contaminated with the oxides of the cerium metals.

Tercine

in botany, Mirbel's name for what he considered a third coating of some seeds, internal to the secunof some seeds, internal to the secundine and primine. It is really only a the secundine itself. Called by Malpighi the chorion. the secundine itself. Called by Malpiborn in Lons-le-Saulnier, er, Jura, about

Terebamic Acid

in chemistry, bamide prepared by heating terebic acid in ammonia gas to 140-160°. It is slight- H ly soluble in cold, very soluble in hot water and in alcohol.