Pachydermic

Pachydermic changes may take place either in the interarytenoid commissure or in the mucous membrane covering the true vocal cords, or it may exist in a generally diffuse form within the larynx.

In pachydermic idiocy the symptoms are more decided and the appearance more distinctive. In the cretin the hands are of a more normal shape, whereas in the pachydermic idiot the fingers are lumpy and the hands swollen.

In some cases, these changes can spread beyond the injury site to the entire limb, and in the worst case, in addition to excruciating pain and hyperesthesia, the skin becomes pachydermic.

The position of the Walrus is between Sirenidia and Pachydermata ; they belong to the pachydermic order by structural evidences, and bear only analogies to the seals.

... "great beasts that resembled huge brown haystacks" and had long, long teeth — tusks, no doubt — so it seems incontrovertible that mastodons and woolly mammoths are meant. Such pachydermic animals did roam Maine once upon a time.

This is rather like dividing the zoological universe into pachydermic and non-pachydermic animals.

"This," says the press agent, "was a test, of pachydermic memory which corroboratcs all that tradition and history assumes."

With a powerful foot it drives the culverin into the ground and continues hot-trunk on its way in the pachydermic hope of reducing to mincemeat the vermin it perceives, but the dogs are already in their kennels, the horses in the stables and the arttillarymen hard by the drawbridge.