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ACEPHALOUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACEPHALOUS , headless, whether literally or metaphorically, leaderless. The word is used literally in See also:

biology; and metaphorically in See also:prosody or See also:grammar for a See also:verse or See also:sentence with a beginning wanting. In See also:zoology, the See also:mollusca are divided into cephalous and acephalous (Acephala), according as they have or have not an organized See also:part of their See also:anatomy as the seat of the See also:brain and See also:special senses. The Acephala, or Lamellibranchiata (q.v.), are commonly known as bivalve See also:shell-See also:fish. In See also: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.

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