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Word Meanings - PERILYMPH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.

Related words: (words related to PERILYMPH)

  • LABYRINTHAL
    Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
  • LABYRINTHINE
    Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
  • LABYRINTHICI
    An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
  • LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
    Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • LABYRINTHIFORM
    Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
  • FLUID
    Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
  • INTERNALLY
    1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
  • LABYRINTHIAN
    Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • FLUIDAL
    Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
  • FLUIDRACHM
    See S
  • INTERNALITY
    The state of being internal or within; interiority.
  • MEMBRANOUS
    Membranaceous. Membranous croup , true croup. See Croup. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
  • INTERNAL
    Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. Internal angle , an interior angle. See under Interior. -- Internal gear , a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward. Syn. -- Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside. (more
  • FLUIDITY
    The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aƫriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
  • FLUIDIZE
    To render fluid.
  • LABYRINTHODONT
    Of or pertaining to the Labyrinthodonta. -- n.
  • FLUIDOUNCE
    See FLUID
  • INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE
    Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber,
  • PASTEUR'S FLUID
    An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
  • INTERMEMBRANOUS
    Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.
  • SEMIFLUID
    Imperfectly fluid. -- n.

 

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