Chapter Ordinand to Organism of O by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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(Geom.), the description of a curve on a plane by means of instruments. Brande & C. — Organic disease (Med.), a disease attended with morbid changes in the structure of the organs of the body or in the composition of its fluids; — opposed to functional disease. — Organic electricity. See under Electricity. — Organiclaw or laws, a law or system of laws, or declaration of principles fundamental to the existence and organization of a political or other association; a constitution. — Organic stricture (Med.), a contraction of one of the natural passages of the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to muscular contraction.

Organical
(Or*gan"ic*al) a. Organic.

The organical structure of human bodies, whereby they live and move.

Bentley.

Organically
(Or*gan"ic*al*ly), adv. In an organic manner; by means of organs or with reference to organic functions; hence, fundamentally. Gladstone.

Organicalness
(Or*gan"ic*al*ness), n. The quality or state of being organic.

Organicism
(Or*gan"i*cism) n. (Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

Organific
(Or`gan*if"ic) a. [Organ + L. -ficare (in comp.) to make. See fy.] Making an organic or organized structure; producing an organism; acting through, or resulting from, organs. Prof. Park.

Organism
(Or"gan*ism) n. [Cf. F. organisme.]

1. Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew.

2. (Biol.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.

Some of the lower forms of life are so simple in structure as to be without organs, but are still called organisms, since they have different parts analogous in functions to the organs of higher plants and animals.