MAC´ERATED, _a._ Soaked to softness.
MAC´ULA, _n._ A spot.
MAC´ULATE, _a._ Spotted.
MAG´NUM, _a._ for _n._ One of the carpal bones.
MA´LA, _n._ Basal portion of outside of lower jaw, usually feathered.
(Sometimes used for corresponding portion of upper jaw; the site and
boundary of _mala_ and _gena_ are not well determined, and vary with
writers. Both lie on side of head, back of bill, and under lore, eye,
and ear.) (26.)
MA´LAR RE´GION. Same as _mala_.
MALLEO´LUS, _n._; pl. _malleoli_. The enlarged articular surface of the
bottom of the tibia; in birds formed by confluence of the two proximal
tarsal ossicles.
MAL´LEUS, _n._ A bone of the inner ear of mammalia, held by high
authority as probably homologous with the OS QUADRATUM (which see).
MAM´MA, _n._ Teat.
MAM´MARY, _a._ Pertaining to the teats, or function of lactation.
MAN´DIBLE, MANDIB´ULA, _n._ Jaw. Properly the _under_ jaw, the upper jaw
being _maxilla_. (11.)
MANDIB´ULAR, _a._ Pertaining to the under jaw. (_Maxillary_ relates to
the upper jaw.)
MANDUCA´TION, _n._ Mastication.
MANDU´CATORY, _a._ Pertaining to mastication.
MANTLE, _n._ (61.) See STRAGULUM and PALLIUM.
MANU´BRIUM STER´NI, _n._ (Literally “handle.”) Process of breast-bone on
front border at root of keel.
MAN´US, _n._ Hand; all of the wing, excepting the feathers, which lies
beyond the wrist; the metacarpus and digits, with associate soft parts.
It corresponds with _pes_.
MAR´BLING, _n._ Fine spotting and streaking intermixed; variegation like
marble. The markings are more distinct than in clouding or _nebulation_.