Term: dieback: a disease of plants characterized by the gradual dying of the young shoots starting at the tips and progressing to the larger branches
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: stegocephalia: in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: farm boy: a boy who has grown up on a farm
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: use: a particular service
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: prince's-feather: annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: flutter: abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: diameter: the length of a straight line passing through the center of a circle and connecting two points on the circumference
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: signaling device: a device used to send signals
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: colonoscopy: visual examination of the colon (with a colonoscope) from the cecum to the rectum; requires sedation
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: atlantic herring: important food fish; found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic
Broader: illness: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Unrelated: cape gooseberry: annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits