HYGEIA. The Greek goddess of health; health. HYPERMETHODIC. Methodic to excess; overmethodic. HYPERTROPHY. Excessive growth. INDISCERPTIBLE. Incapable of being destroyed by separation of parts. INHIBITION. Interference with the normal result of a nervous excitement by an opposing force. IRRADIATION. The diffusion of nervous stimuli out of the path of normal discharge which, as a result of the excitation of a peripheral end organ may excite other central organs than those directly connected with it. KINESOLOGICAL. Pertaining to the science of tests and measurements of bodily strength. KINESOMETER. An instrument for measuring muscular strength. MEDULLATION. The investment of nerve fibers with a protective covering or medullary sheath, consisting of white, fat-like matter. MERISTIC. Pertaining to the levels or spinal and cerebral segments of the body. METABOLISM. The act or process by which, on the one hand, dead food is built up into living matter--anabolism, and by which, on the other, the living matter is broken down into simpler products within a cell or organism--catabolism. METAMORPHOSIS. Change of form or structure; transformation. METEMPSYCHOSIS. The doctrine of the transmigration of the soul from one body to another. MONOPHRASTIC. Pertaining to or consisting of a single phrase. MONOTECHNIC. Pertaining to a single art or craft. MORPHOLOGY. The science of form and structure of plants and animals without regard to function. MYOLOGY. The scientific knowledge of the muscular system. MYTHOPOEIC. Producing or having a tendency to produce myths. NOETIC. Of, pertaining to, or conceived by, mind. NUANCE. Slight shade; difference; distinction; degree. ORTHOGENIC. Pertaining to right beginning and development. ORTHOPEDIC. Relating to the art of curing deformities. OSSUARY. A depository of dry bones. PALEOPSYCHIC. Pertaining to the antiquity of the soul. PANTHEISTIC. Relating to that doctrine which holds that the entire phenomenal universe, including man and nature, is the ever-changing manifestation of God, who rises to self-consciousness and personality only in man. PATRISTICS. That department of study occupied with the doctrines and writings of the fathers of the Christian Church. PHOBIA. Excessive or morbid fear of anything. PHYLETICALLY. In accordance with the phylum or race; racially. PHYLETIC. Pertaining to a race or clan. PHYLOGENY. The history of the evolution of a species or group; tribal history; ancestral development as opposed to ontogeny or the development of the individual. PHYLUM. A term introduced by Haeckel to designate the great branches of the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Each phylum may include several classes. PICKELHAUBE. The spiked helmet of the German army. PLANKTON. Sea animals and plants collectively; distinguished from coast or bottom forms and floating in a great mass. POLYGAMIC (LOVE). Pertaining to the habit of having more than one mate of the opposite sex.