Sericterium: alternatives and connections

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

enlargement of bones of hands and feet and face; often accompanied by headache and muscle pain and emotional disturbances; caused by o…

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving…

A building or apartment for silkworms, when feeding and forming cocoons.

A thin stuff made of the finest wool or silk, or of wool and silk.

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.

A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.

any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream

The end, or other superficial part, of a bone, which ossifies separately from the central portion, or diaphysis.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland.

One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative g…

A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.

an overactive thyroid gland; pathologically excessive production of thyroid hormones or the condition resulting from excessive product…