FABEL´LA, _n._ A certain sesamoid bone.
FA´CET, _n._ Smooth, flattened articulating surface.
FA´CIAL, _a._ Pertaining to the face.
FA´CIES, _n._ Face; whole front of head, excepting the bill.
FÆ´CAL, _a._ Pertaining to excrement; excrementitious.
FÆ´CES, _n. pl._ Excrement; dung.
FAL´CATE, FAL´CIFORM, _a._ Sickle-shaped; scythe-shaped.
FAL´CONINE, _a._ Like a hawk; belonging to the _Falconidæ_.
FALSE WING. (79.) See ALULA.
FALX CEREBRI, _n._ A certain fold of the _dura mater_.
FAMILY, _n._ Systematic group of the grade between order and genus,
generally distinguished or denoted by the termination _-idæ_, as
_Falcon-idæ_.
FAS´CIA, _n._ Broad band of color. Also, equivalent to APONEUROSIS
(which see).
FAS´CIATED, _a._ Broadly banded with color.
FAS´CICLE, _n._ Bundle.
FAS´CICLED, FASCIC´ULATE, _a._ Bundled.
FASTIG´IATE, _a._ Bundled together into conical shape, or with enlarged
head, like a wheat-sheaf.
FAU´CES, _n._ The jaws, internally; back of the mouth. Compare PHARYNX.
FEATHER, _n._ (1; 143.) See PLUMA, PENNA. Any one of the objects which
collectively constitute the peculiar covering of birds.
FEC´ULENT, _a._ Excrementitious.
FECUN´DATED, _a._ Impregnated; made fruitful; said of the germ of an egg
which has received the male element.
FECUNDA´TION, _n._ Impregnation; the usual consequence of the completed
joint act of the ovarian and spermatic organs.
FECUN´DITY, _n._ Fruitfulness.
FEM´ORAL, _a._ Pertaining to the thigh, or part of leg from hip to knee.