English dictionary: words starting with procer

noun

The earliest parasitic form of the larval stage of certain tapeworms, in which the body is solid and has begun to develop a scolex but retains the posterior hooks found in the preceding embryonic stage.

adjective

Of or relating to the procerebrum; situated anterior to the cerebral ganglion.

noun

The anterior part of the central nervous system in various invertebrates; specifically the lateral lobe of the cerebral ganglion of certain molluscs; the protocerebrum of an arthropod.

noun

With plural agreement. chief men, nobles, magnates.

noun

Tallness, loftiness, height; length.

noun

A muscle, usually roughly triangular in shape, that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead. in early use more fully "†procerus nasi".