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Nematocalyx
- - One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.
Nematocidal
- - Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes.
Nematognath
- - One of the Nematognathi.
Neostigmine
- noun - a cholinergic drug (trade name Prostigmin) used to treat some ophthalmic conditions and to treat myasthenia gravis
New Thought
- - Any form of belief in mental healing, other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. It was practised in the 19th century, and its central principle was affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the High Thought, used in England.
Nicotianine
- - A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
Night Court
- noun - a criminal court (in large cities) that sits at night
Night Heron
- noun - nocturnal or crepuscular herons