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• CAPSULE (from the Lat. capsula, a small box)

CAPSULE (from the See also:

• LAT

Lat. capsula, a small See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box)  , a See also:

• TERM

term in See also:

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

botany for a dry See also:

• SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed See also:

• VESSEL (O. Fr. vaissel, from a rare Lat. vascellum, dim. of vas, vase, urn)

vessel, as in the See also:

• POPPY

poppy, See also:

• IRIS

iris, See also:

• FOXGLOVE

foxglove, &c., containing one or more cells . When ripe the See also:

• CAPSULE (from the Lat. capsula, a small box)

capsule opens and scatters the seed (see BOTANY) . The word is used also for a small gelatinous See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case enclosing a dose of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, and for a See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal cap or See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover on bottles and jars . In See also:

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

anatomy the term is used to denote a cover or envelope partly or wholly surrounding a structure . Every diarthrodial See also:

• JOINT (through Fr. from Lat. junctum, jungere, to join)

joint possesses a fibrous or ligamentous capsule, lined with synovial membrane, attached to the adjacent ends of the articulating bones . The term is particularly applied to the See also:

• SAC

sac which encloses the crystalline See also:

• LENS
• LENS (from Lat. lens, lentil, on account of the similarity of the form of a lens to that of a lentil seed)

lens of the See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye; to Glisson's capsule, a thin areolar coat of fibrous See also:

• TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue lying inside the tunica serosa of the See also:

• LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

liver; to the glomerular capsules in the See also:

• KIDNEY

kidney substance; to the suprarenal capsules, two small flattened See also:

• ORGANS

organs in the epigastric region; and to the See also:

• INTERNAL

internal and See also:

• EXTERNAL

external capsules of the See also:

• BRAIN (A.S. braegen)

brain (see BRAIN, fig . 14 and explanation) .