ACEPHALOUS  , headless, whether literally or metaphorically, leaderless . The word is used literally in See also:

• BIOLOGY (Gr. Qios, life)

biology; and metaphorically in See also:

• PROSODY (Gr. rpovwSta)

prosody or See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar for a See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse or See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence with a beginning wanting . In See also:

• ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology, the See also:

• MOLLUSCA

mollusca are divided into cephalous and acephalous (Acephala), according as they have or have not an organized See also:

• PART

part of their See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy as the seat of the See also:

• BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

brain and See also:

• SPECIAL

special senses . The Acephala, or Lamellibranchiata (q.v.), are commonly known as bivalve See also:

• SHELL
• SHELL (O. Eng. scell, scyll, cf. Du. sceel, shell, Goth. skalja, tile; the word means originally a thin flake,. cf. Swed. skalja, to peel off; it is allied to " scale " and " skill," from a root meaning to cleave, divide, separate)

shell-See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . In See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany the word is used for ovaries not terminating in a stigma . Acephalocyst is the name given by R . T . H . Laennec to the hydatid, immattire or larval tapeworm .