cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
echinulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more echinulate
form: most echinulate
Etymology: From Latin echinulus (“little hedgehog”).
Senses: examples: text: An interesting feature of the plant was the occasional incidence of radiate, mostly unbranched bracts in the cystocarp, giving it an echinulate appearance.
ref: 1970, Lewis Herrick Flint, Freshwater Red Algae of North America, page 76:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small spines or similar projections
Related terms: echinulation
yellow cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow card
Metidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɛˈtɪdiən/
Forms: form: more Metidian
form: most Metidian
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Oceanid Metis in Greek mythology.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Jovian moon named for Metis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid (9) Metis.
meatatarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiː.təˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌmi.təˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: meatatarians
Etymology: Blend of meat + vegetarian; compare pescetarian.
Senses: glosses: A person who exclusively or predominantly eats meat.
Synonyms: carnivore
meatarian
Related terms: -arian
-tarian
œil-de-bœuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œils-de-bœuf
Etymology: Borrowed from French œil-de-bœuf.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: bull's eye, oculus
œils-de-bœuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of œil-de-bœuf
goll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golls
Senses: examples: text: Then give me thy Princely goll, which thus I kisse, to whom I crouch and bow; But see my royall sparke, this head-strong swarme that follow me humming like a master Bee, have I led forth their Hives, and being on wing, and in our heady flight, have seazed him shall suffer for thy wrongs.
ref: 1609, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Philaster:
text: Give me thy goll, thou are a noble girl.
ref: 1622, Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier:
glosses: A hand.
goll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From God.
Senses: examples: text: 'I dunno what you mean,' says Jim. 'Yes, ye do, goll darn ye!' says Dick, 'yes, ye do.
ref: 1900, Edward Noyes Westcott, The Christmas Story from David Harum:
text: By goll! that's all I'm good for to take on now.
ref: 1919, Various, The Best Short Stories of 1917:
glosses: God
cretinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cretinoid
form: most cretinoid
Etymology: From cretin + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with cretinism.
Related terms: cretinous
cretinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cretinoids
Etymology: From cretin + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted with cretinism.
diaphtherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dental antiseptic derived from hydroxyquinoline and a phenolsulfonic acid
Synonyms: oxyquinaseptol
diastaltic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈstæɫtɪk/
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to diastalsis.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of Ancient Greek music: having an elevating influence.
Coordinate terms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: hesychastic
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: systaltic
diastalsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈstæɫsɪs/
Senses: glosses: A form of peristalsis (as in the intestines) in which the wave of contraction is preceded by a period of inhibition
dicrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌɪˈkɹɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /daɪˈkɹɑt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δίκροτος (díkrotos, “double-beating”) + -ic, from δύο (dúo, “two”) + κρότος (krótos, “beat”).
Senses: qualifier: pulse
glosses: Having a double beat.
examples: dicrotic notch of aortic pressure
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
qualifier: pulse
glosses: Having a double beat.
Denoting a pulse in which a double beat is detectable for each beat of the heart.
Derived terms: dicrotism
hyperdicrotic
hypodicrotic
postdicrotic
predicrotic
dicrotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicrotisms
Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek κρότος (krótos, “a rattling, beating”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of each beat of the pulse consisting of two sphygmographic waves.
Coordinate terms: monocrotism
tricrotism
polycrotism
Derived terms: catadicrotism
hyperdicrotism
sphygmographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sphygmograph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a sphygmograph or to sphygmography
didymalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pain in the testes
diprosopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόσωπον (prósōpon, “face”).
Senses: glosses: A condition in which part of the face is duplicated on the head.
dipsosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dipso- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any condition characterized by excessive thirst
discission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discissions
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: incision, especially of a soft cataract
dogs-bane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogs-banes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dogbane.
dolomol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: magnesium stearate when used in medicinal preparations
self-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + raising.
Senses: glosses: Capable of rising without added leavening agent.
raw_tags: of flour
Synonyms: self-rising
Derived terms: self-raising flour
dragee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dragees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dragée.
self-rising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + rising.
Senses: glosses: self-raising
dynamograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamographs
Etymology: From dynamo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A dynamometer that produces a graphical record; especially one used to record muscular power
elytrotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elytrotomies
Etymology: From elytron (“the protective wing of a beetle”), + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical division or removal of a winglike structure
Derived terms: gastroelytrotomy
laparo-elytrotomy
endoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoblasts
Etymology: From endo- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: entoblast
Derived terms: endoblastic
entoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entoblasts
Etymology: From ento- + -blast.
Senses: glosses: Any of the embryonic blastomeres that develop into the endoderm
Synonyms: endoblast
entad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ento- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: inward
ectad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ecto- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Insertion was ectad of the rectus almost to the midventral line.
ref: 1878, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 57:
text: This is the cephalic and ventral ramus of the common trunk; it is ectad of the carotid artery and the facial vein, entad of the submaxillary gland, and upon the ectal surface of the masseter muscle.
ref: 1886 November 5, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, volume 24:
text: Its cranial border is thickened and somewhat curled around the anterior fifth of the ilium and distad lies in the groove between the gluteus medius and the iliacus, continuing ectad of the proximal end of the vastus externus the cranial border of the biceps femoris to which it has a short semitendinous attachment distad and ectad of its insertion on the great trochanter.
ref: 1921, Wilfred H. Osgood, A monographic study of the American marsupial, Cænolestes, page 36:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: outward
Coordinate terms: distad
Related terms: ectal
ectally
enteralgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From entero- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: pain in the intestines
Synonyms: colic
enterorrhaphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterorrhaphies
Etymology: From entero- + -rrhaphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A suture of the intestine
Rutul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rutuls
form: Rutul
Senses: glosses: A member an ethnic group in the Republic of Dagestan in Russia and parts of Azerbaijan
Rutul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Lezgic (Northeast Caucasian) language of the Rutul people
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Rutul terms
ephebic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ephebic
form: most ephebic
Etymology: From ephebe + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The ephebic androgyny of the high classic Apollo turned into effeminacy in Hellenistic art.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: Pertaining to a young man or to early manhood, especially in Ancient Greek contexts.
Related terms: ephebe
ephebus
ephebophilic
epidemicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epidemicities
Etymology: From epidemic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being epidemic
etherization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etherizations
Etymology: From ether + -ization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: anaesthetization using ether
Related terms: etherize
blackthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackthorn
arhythmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arhythmias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of arrhythmia.
gallogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gall + -o- + -gen.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: ellagic acid
gastropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastropathies
Etymology: From gastro- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of the stomach.
vant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vants
form: vanting
form: vanted
form: vanted
Senses: examples: text: "Come, now, deacon," said the shopkeeper, abruptly dropping the cat, "you can turn up your nose at my ideas all you vant, but you mustn't turn it up at my shurch.
ref: 1890, John Habberton, All He Knew:
text: "Ay vant to get married," blushed Pete, who is by way of being a Scandinavian.
ref: 1922, Various, Best Short Stories:
text: His boss, A.J. Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!?
ref: 1992 January 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of want.
Related terms: vant-courier
gastrosplenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gastro- + splenic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the stomach and the spleen.
Synonyms: gastrolienal
genesiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of generation (reproduction).
glonoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glonoine
Etymology: Shortened from glycerine, oxygen, nitrogen, + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: nitroglycerine when used medicinally
grattage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grattages
Etymology: From French grattage.
Senses: examples: text: August 18th.—Operation by "grattage" without ether. The pain experienced by the patient was quite severe.
ref: 1891 October 24, John E. Weeks, “The surgical treatment of granulated lids”, in New York Medical Journal, volume 54, page 456:
text: Among those vaccinated by piqûre (sticking) a very small number only contracted the disease, and in these it was mild, while in those vaccinated by grattage it was, in general, severe.
ref: 1894, “Progress of Medical Science”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 334:
text: The results obtained by friction or grattage, by tearing the superficial capillaries, as well as the softer pathologic elements, will cause local depletion and will greatly improve circulation and absorption.
ref: 1897 July 24, J. A. Bach, “The surgical treatment of granular conjunctivitis”, in The Medical News, volume 71, page 110:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The scraping away of granulations (from an ulcer etc.) in order to stimulate healing.
examples: text: Automatism in art can arise quite deliberately from manual techniques (such as frottage, grattage and decalcomania in the visual arts, algorithmic or statistical procedures in musical composition, or random verbal collages in poetry) or accidentally from altered states of consciousness (for example, intoxication, hallucination, trance and ecstasy).
ref: 2010, Eran Guter, Aesthetics A-Z, page 25:
text: These same forest images appeared when he adapted his frottage technique to the roughly rubbed and scratched painting techniques of grattage.
ref: 2013, M. E. Warlick, Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth, page 193:
text: They test the possibilities of collage, frottage, grattage, different methods of painting and printing, but also wordplay—and the mutual imitation and intersection ofthese devices.
ref: 2013, Ralph Ubl, Prehistoric Future: Max Ernst and the Return of Painting between the Wars:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A technique popularized by Max Ernst involving scraping at dried paint in order to form patterns.
Related terms: frottage
hematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haematic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, affecting or containing blood
hematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematics
form: haematic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma) + -tic.
Senses: glosses: hematinic
hematinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hē′mə-tĭn′ĭk
ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtɪn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌhi.məˈtɪn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtən.ək/
ipa: /ˌhiː.maˈʈin.ik/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: more hematinic
form: most hematinic
Etymology: From hematin + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That improves the quality of blood, especially by increasing the amount of hemoglobin or of red blood cells.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, derived from hematin.
hematinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hē′mə-tĭn′ĭk
ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtɪn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌhi.məˈtɪn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌhiː.məˈtən.ək/
ipa: /ˌhiː.maˈʈin.ik/
rhymes: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: hematinics
Etymology: From hematin + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that has a hematinic (sense 1) effect.
hemisystole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemisystoles
Etymology: From hemi- + systole.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The contraction of the left ventricle alternating with that of the right ventricle, instead of both contracting together
hemiterata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiteras
teratism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teratisms
Etymology: From terato- + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any severe congenital malformation
horse-radish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-radishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horseradish.
hydatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydatoid
form: most hydatoid
Etymology: From hydato- + -oid.
Hydat- is the stem of Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Senses: glosses: watery, aqueous
hydatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydato- + -oid.
Hydat- is the stem of Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: aqueous humour
hypertropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertropias
Etymology: From hyper- + -tropia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of strabismus in which one eye points upward.
Related terms: hypotropia
iniencephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A person exhibiting iniencephaly
iniencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰνίον (iníon) + ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos) + -y.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A cephalic disorder characterized by spina bifida and spinal retroflexion
Related terms: iniencephalic
iniencephalus
insufflator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insufflators
Etymology: From insufflate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of insufflate: a person or device which insufflates.
glosses: A form of injector for forcing air into a furnace.
interosseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + osseous.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: interosseal
glosses: Between bones.
matrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrasses
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman matraz (“shaft, dart”), Middle French materas, from an unattested post-classical variant of Latin mataris, materis (“Gaulish throwing-spear”), from a Gaulish language.
Senses: glosses: A bolt for a crossbow.
matrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrasses
Etymology: From New Latin matracium and its source, Middle French matheras, matraz etc., either from Middle French materas (see Etymology 1, above), with reference to its shape, or from Arabic مطرة, مطارة (“leather bottle, vase”).
Senses: examples: text: So the learn’d Alchemist exulting sees / Rise in his bright matrass Diana’s trees […].
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 206:
glosses: A type of bolthead flask used in chemical distillation.
bolthead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boltheads
Etymology: From bolt + head.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A round-bottomed flask with a long neck (used especially for distillation)
glosses: The head of a bolt.
mercauro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of the bromides of mercury, gold and arsenic used to treat syphilis
neurohypnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurhypnology
form: neurypnology
Etymology: From neuro- + hypnology.
Senses: glosses: hypnotism
neuroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuroid
form: most neuroid
Etymology: From neuro- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a nerve or similar neural structure; nervelike
neurokeratin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + keratin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The protein component of the myelin sheath.
nidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: nidations
Etymology: From Latin nīdus (“nest”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The implantation of the early embryo in the uterus
Related terms: word: nidate
word: nidatory
sense: and see
word: nidifugous
paracytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + -cytic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing cells other than those found normally in a specific location
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Situated between cells (but independent of them)
Derived terms: brachyparacytic
paristhmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + isthmic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tonsils; tonsillar.
pentosuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentosurias
Etymology: From pentose + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: the presence of pentose sugars in the urine; especially the presence of abnormally high levels of xylulose in the urine
peracephalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peracephali
Senses: glosses: An individual with a malformation of the head
Related terms: cephalic
pericytial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + cytial.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding a cell
perididymis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fibrous membrane surrounding most of the testis
Synonyms: tunica albuginea
tunica vaginalis testis
physometra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physo- + metra (“uterus”).
Senses: glosses: distension of the uterus due to the presence of gas or air
picropodophyllin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular chemokine that induces apoptosis in some tumour cells
plasson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mass of undifferentiated anucleate protoplasm supposed to be the simplest structure of living organisms
polymelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A congenital defect characterized by extra limbs
Related terms: polymelian
forspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈspiːk/
ipa: /fə-/
ipa: /fɔɹˈspik/
ipa: /fɚ-/
homophone: forespeak
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: forspeaks
form: forspeaking
form: forspoke
form: forspake
form: forspoken
Etymology: See forespeak.
Senses: examples: text: The same Henry of Ritchmond (after Henry the seavnth) I know not by what provydence or prophecy forsaw that his sonne Henry was not lyke to please god so well to have the kingdome established in his posterytye and thearfore matched his eldest Dawghter into Skotland thearby as yt wear forspeaking a happy conjunction of thease two noble realms [...]
ref: 1640, James Harrington, transl., The Vjth Booke of Vergills Eneads; quoted in Caroline Bicks, “Stealing the Seal: Baptizing Women and the Mark of Kingship”, in Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare’s England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2017, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Alternative spelling of forespeak.
pseudodiphtheria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + diphtheria.
Senses: glosses: Any of several infections, such as pharyngitis or tonsillitis, that resemble diphtheria but are caused by a different microorganism.
psychrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psychro- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: One bright, icy afternoon–shall I ever forget it?–while little Philly, at the prospect of a bath, was suffering under a severe attack of Psychrophobia, the baby, held in Aggy's now careful arms, was gazing through the window panes.
ref: 1876, Mary Mapes Dodge, Theophilus and Others:
glosses: An abnormal sensitivity to, or fear of cold
saccharomycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharomycoses
Etymology: From saccharo- + mycosis.
Senses: glosses: An infection by fungi of the genus Saccharomyces
Santyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name, attested since at least the early 1900s, from Santalum or santalum (which see for other related terms).
Senses: examples: text: Santyl is excreted in a form more allied to sulphates and glycoll; it is more fully oxidized and its products are unirritating. Some experiments recently conducted with Santyl tablets show that these are absorbed almost as quickly as Santyl drops […]
ref: 1909, Adolf Baginsky, Jacob Snowman, Folia Therapeutica: A Periodical Journal Relating to Modern Therapeutics and Pharmacology for Medical Practitioners:
text: - Antibiotic fights infection and Santyl® ointment removes dead skin.
- Healthy skin tissue fills in the wound.
- Healthy pink cells start to form around the edge and on the surface.
Discontinue Santyl® when granulation tissue is well established.
ref: 2012, Pamela Brown, Quick Reference to Wound Care, →ISBN, page 83:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular brand of collagenase ointment.
scalenus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skəˈliː.nəs/
ipa: /skeɪˈli.nəs/
rhymes: -iːnəs
Forms: form: scaleni
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of scalene muscle.
seropurulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sero- + purulent.
Senses: synonyms: seropuriform
glosses: That consists of both serum and pus.
sextan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That recurs on the sixth day
sextan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextans
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fever that recurs every sixth day.
spagiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spagyric.
sporule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporules
Etymology: From French sporule or Latin sporula; equivalent to spore + -ule.
Senses: glosses: A small spore
Derived terms: sporuliferous
stramonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: stramoniums
form: stramonia
Etymology: From New Latin stramonium, stramonia (attested since the 1540s), of unknown origin. (Compare Italian stramonio, attested since at least the 1560s.) The English word is attested since the 1660s. Some older dictionaries speculated that stramonium, as well as Russian дурма́н (durmán), might derive from a Turkic source like Tatar *turman (“medicine for horses”), but the Russian word is now thought to be an internal (native) formation, and the Tatar word, properly дәрман (därman, “remedy”), derives from Persian.
Senses: examples: text: Stramonium seed, mixed with wine, produces, according to a seventeenth century erotologist, libidinous activity.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:
glosses: The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
glosses: A narcotic drug obtained from the dried leaves of this plant.
sudatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudatoria
Senses: glosses: A hot room used to induce sweating, steam room, steam bath, sauna.
Synonyms: sudatory
tabardillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tabardillo, from tabardo (“colored cloak”).
Senses: glosses: A form of murine typhus that occurs in Mexico.
tanghin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Tanghinia + -in
Senses: glosses: A poison obtained from the kernels of the plant Cerbera manghas (syn. Tanghinia venenifera) from Madagascar
tannosal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of creosote and tannin once used to treat tuberculosis
telegony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + -gony.
Senses: examples: text: "And that telegony is still sub judice?" "Undoubtedly." "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: The belief that, in the case of siblings from the same mother but different fathers, the second sibling could inherit characteristics from the father of the first.
wiselier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Gonzalo. […] you have spoken truer than you purposed.
Sebastian. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: O wiselier then, from feeble yearnings freed,
While, and on whom, thou may’st – shine on!
ref: 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Duty surviving self-love”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume 2, London: William Pickering, published 1828, page 77:
glosses: comparative form of wisely (adverb): more wisely
teratosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teratoses
Etymology: From terato- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: teratism
theriaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theriacas
form: theriacae
Etymology: From Late Latin theriaca, from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “of or related to poisonous reptiles”), from θηρίον (thēríon, “little beast”) + -κός (-kós), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”) + -ίον (-íon, diminutive suffix). Doublet of theriac; compare treacle.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of theriac.
tuberculoplasmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The protoplasm of tubercle bacilli
psoae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psoas
psoai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psoas
uberveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of uber- + surveillance.
Senses: examples: text: The advent of subdermal microchips is part of what the authors call 'uberveillance,' which connotes the ability to automatically locate and identify individuals, and can be used to as^([sic]) a predictive mechanism for behaviour and traits.
ref: 2010, Darren Pauli, “The Next Generation May be 'Chipped'”, in PCWorld:
glosses: An omnipresent form of round-the-clock surveillance of people via widespread electronic devices, and especially computer chips embedded into human bodies.
long sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long swords
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of longsword.
long swords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long sword
azolitmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From azo- + litmus + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A purplish-red material, of uncertain composition, that is the principal colouring matter of litmus
Related terms: erythrolitmin
leucazolitmin
leucoorcein
spaniolitmin
temporalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛm.pəˈɹeɪ.lɪs/
rhymes: -eɪlɪs
Forms: form: temporales
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin temporālis (“of or belonging to the temples of the head”), ellipsis of mūsculus temporālis (“the temporal muscle”). Doublet of temporal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: temporal muscle
glosses: A fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to raise the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing.
varus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vari
Etymology: From Latin varus.
Senses: glosses: A deformity in which the foot is turned inward.
glosses: Acne.
Related terms: vary
prevaricate
eicosadienoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eicosadiene + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eicosadienoic acid or its derivatives.
Derived terms: eicosadienoyl
eicosadienoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated fatty acid having 20 carbon atoms and two double bonds
eicosaenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eicosa- + ene -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eicosaenoic acid or its derivatives
eicosaenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated fatty acid having 20 carbon atoms and one double bond
matrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matrass
consensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consense
eicosapentaenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eicosapentaene + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eicosapentaenoic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: eicosapentaenoyl
eicosatetraenoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eicosatetraene + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eicosatetraenoic acid or its derivatives; arachidonic
Derived terms: eicosatetraenoate
eicosatetraenoyl
eicosatetraenoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: arachidonic acid
Derived terms: hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid
eicosatrienoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eicosatriene + -oic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to eicosatrienoic acid or its derivatives; homolinolenic
Derived terms: eicosatrienoyl
epoxyeicosatrienoic
eicosatrienoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An unsaturated fatty acid having 20 carbon atoms and 3 double bonds; homolinolenic acid
Related terms: eicosatrienoate
vertical bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical bar
Ghanan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ghana + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Ghana or the Ghanaian people; Ghanaian.
Ghanan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ghanans
Etymology: From Ghana + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Ghana or of Ghanaian descent; Ghanaian.
yelk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɛlk/
rhymes: -ɛlk
Forms: form: yelks
Senses: examples: text: Eggs roasted hard, and the yelke taken out and salt putt in its stead.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 62:
glosses: Obsolete form of yolk.
antiricin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + ricin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An antitoxin produced in the blood as a response to exposure to ricin.
teratoblastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teratoblastomas
form: teratoblastomata
Etymology: From terato- + blastoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A neoplasm containing embryonic tissue, but lacking some of the germ layers that would be present in a teratoma
butyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of butyric acid; the principal constituent of butterfat
Derived terms: butyrinase
tributyrin
butyraceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /bjuːtɪˈɹeɪʃəs/
Forms: form: more butyraceous
form: most butyraceous
Etymology: From butyro- + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or containing butter; buttery
Synonyms: word: butterlike
word: buttery
word: butyric
butyrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butyrometers
Etymology: From butyro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any of several devices used to estimate the proportion of butterfat in milk
Related terms: word: butyrometric
word: butyrometry
english: a type of butyrometer
translation: a type of butyrometer
word: Gerber tube
butyrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more butyrous
form: most butyrous
Etymology: From butyro- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing butter, buttery
boroglyceride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boro- + glyceride.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preparation made by warming boric acid with glycerine; once used as an antiseptic
Synonyms: boroglycerol
boroglycerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: boroglyceride
bromal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromals
Etymology: From bromine and alcohol. Compare chloral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound tribromoacetaldehyde CBr₃-CHO
bromamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromamides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The brominated derivative of an amide R-CO-NHBr
Derived terms: Hoffman bromamide reaction
bromated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bromated
form: most bromated
Etymology: From bromate + -ed.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: brominated
Derived terms: monobromated
bromelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromelins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bromelein.
glosses: Alternative form of bromalin.
bromelein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A proteolytic enzyme found in pineapples
bromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromisms
Etymology: From bromine + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: poisoning by bromine or bromides
Synonyms: bromidism
brominism
bromalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bromoformin
bromoformin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bromomethylate of hexamethylene diamine, once used as a sedative
camphol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camphols
Etymology: From camphor + -ol.
Senses: glosses: borneol
step-thru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-thrus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of step-through.
Pudahuel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Chile.
caprin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The triglyceride of capric acid; a constituent of butterfat
Synonyms: decanoin
Derived terms: dicaprin
monocaprin
tricaprin
Related terms: butyrin
Buin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and commune in Maipo province, Santiago metropolitan region, Chile.
axipetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axipetal
form: most axipetal
Etymology: From axis + -petal.
Senses: examples: text: In a Galilean frame of reference, any point fixed relative to the Earth has an axipetal acceleration (ie directed toward the world's axis following the shortest distance, which is the perpendicular), of value Ω²(r sin θ).
ref: 2000, Louis Lliboutry, Quantitative Geophysics and Geology, page 140:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Tending toward the center or axis
Synonyms: centripetal
axipetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more axipetal
form: most axipetal
Etymology: From axon + -petal.
Senses: examples: text: A general law has been laid down by van Gehuchten and Cajal, that all nerve impulses are axipetal, that is, they pass towards the attachment of the axon, by which they leave the body of the cell.
ref: 1905, William Senhouse Kirkes, Handbook of Physiology, page 204:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Seeking the axon
Synonyms: axopetal
are you taking any medications
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Asked mostly by doctors and nurses to ascertain whether certain drugs should not be given to patients, as they may interact adversely with other medications.
Related terms: are you allergic to any medications?
abdominocystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdɑm.ɪ.noʊˌsɪs.tɪk/
Etymology: * abdomino- (“abdomen”) + cystic (“bladder”)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the abdomen and to the bladder.
abdominogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ɪ.noʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪ.tl̩/
Etymology: From abdomino- + genital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the abdomen and to the genitals.
abdominohysterotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ɪ.noʊ.hɪs.tɚˈɹɑt.ə.mi/
Forms: form: abdominohysterotomies
Etymology: From abdomino- + hysterotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An incision of the uterus, done through a surgical hole in the abdomen.
Nm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nms
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nautical mile.
zincoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zincoid
form: most zincoid
Etymology: From zinc + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling zinc.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the zinc electrode that connects to a copper one in a voltaic cell.
zooparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooparasites
Etymology: From zoo- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that is parasitic to an animal
zymin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymins
Senses: glosses: An enzyme, especially one used medicinally.
zymoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zymoid
form: most zymoid
Etymology: From zymo- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a zymin or ferment (enzyme)
xeroform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A wound dressing consisting of a gauze soaked in a mixture of bismuth tribromophenate and petroleum jelly.
washing-soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of washing soda.
water-borne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waterborne.
whooping-cough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whooping cough.
wood-alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wood alcohol.
wool-fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wool fat.
double-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Formed in a blackboard bold typeface, in which certain lines of the character are doubled
raw_tags: of a character or font
coffin ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffin ship
plurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a plural manner or fashion.
nonorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + organized.
Senses: glosses: Not organized.
proofreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proofreading
valeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: valeraldehyde
valerene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of monoterpenes obtained from the essential oil or valerian
valerianate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valerianates
Etymology: From valerianic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: valerate
valerianates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valerianate
valerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valerian + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixture of terpenoid alcohols obtained from the essential oil of valerian
hollow leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɒl.əʊ ˈlɛɡ/
ipa: /ˌhɑ.loʊ ˈlɛɡ/
Forms: form: hollow legs
Etymology: Humorously suggesting a further place where a person's body might store food once the stomach has filled up. Compare fill one's boots.
Senses: examples: text: When I was young and growing a lot, and Mama couldn't feed me enough, she used to say I had a hollow leg.
ref: 1998, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, page 228:
text: Fannie Jump Creighton had a hollow leg, as the saying goes, and Idabelle was so fat, if she tripped coming up the hill she'd roll all the way to the bottom.
ref: 1999, Rita Mae Brown, Six of One, page 137:
text: My brother, who had recently overtaken me in height and then racked up another six inches, ate to fill his hollow leg. My father did better than expected, too, eating two pieces of pie with our amaretto-flavored whipped cream.
ref: 2006, Amanda Boyden, Pretty Little Dirty, page 268:
glosses: Capacity to eat large quantities.
examples: text: I didn't want his unhappiness or his pain, or his personality changes, but I wanted to drink as much, as often. I certainly wanted his hollow leg.
ref: 1985, Megan Moran, Lost Years: Confessions of a Woman Alcoholic, page 209:
text: Where was Uncle? Gone for a stiff one? Again? His hollow leg, you know. Ducking in the john to throw up on his loafers? Probably that. What did he have tonight? Anything good?
ref: 2006, Steven Sidor, Bone Factory, page 89:
glosses: Ability or tendency to drink large quantities of alcohol.
Related terms: drink someone under the table
hollow legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollow leg
fruiting bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruiting body
false truffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false truffles
Senses: glosses: Any of various fungi that have underground fruiting bodies which resemble truffles.
false truffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of false truffle
unnoteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnoteful
form: most unnoteful
Etymology: From Middle English unnoteful (“useless, unprofitable”), equivalent to un- + noteful.
Senses: examples: an unnoteful bargain
glosses: Of no value or profit; useless; unprofitable; of no note; noteless.
Related terms: noteful
note
matzol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matzoon + -ol?
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A proprietary preparation of matzoon and cod-liver oil.
matzoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madzoon
form: madzoun
form: matsoni
form: matson
form: matzoun
form: matsoun
form: matsoon
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian մածուն (macun).
Senses: synonyms: Caspian Sea yogurt
glosses: A yoghurt-like dairy product of Armenian origin, made from fermented cow's milk, and popular mainly in Armenia and Georgia.
Derived terms: matzol
upsetteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upset
separation anxiety disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separation anxiety disorders
Senses: synonyms: separation anxiety
glosses: A psychological condition in which a person experiences excessive anxiety regarding separation from home or from people to whom the person has a strong emotional attachment.
stickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stickable
form: most stickable
Etymology: From stick + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being stuck; adhesive.
Synonyms: sense: sticky
word: claggy
word: tenacious
word: adhesive
falsehearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more falsehearted
form: most falsehearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of false-hearted.
Derived terms: falseheartedly
falseheartedness
snowcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowcats
Etymology: Perhaps from the brand name Sno-Cat, probably from snow + caterpillar track.
Senses: glosses: A truck-like enclosed vehicle on tracks, designed to move on snow.