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1. abirritant, adj. (and n.) View full entry 1879
...That reduces irritation. Also as : a soothing drug, ointment, etc. Also fig....
2. † ablastous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Lacking capacity for new growth; sterile, unfruitful....
3. † abnerval, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of an electrical current in muscle: moving away from the neuromuscular junction....
4. † abscedent, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of parts of the body: disunited or separated (as a result of disease)....
5. † accrementitial, adj. View full entry 1879
...= accrementitious...
6. accrementition, n. View full entry 1879
...Organic growth in which the new substance is exactly like that from which it proceeds; (more widely) accretion....
7. † acheilous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Having one or both lips absent....
8. † achromatistous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Uncoloured; colourless. Cf. achromous...
9. achromous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Uncoloured; colourless. Cf. achromatistous...
10. † achroous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Uncoloured; colourless....
11. achylia, n. View full entry 1879
...Absent or reduced secretion by part of the digestive tract; esp. (more fully achylia gastrica) absence of the secretion of gastric fluid (as in atrophic gastritis). Cf. ...
12. achylous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Containing no (or little) chyle; failing to secrete chyle. Cf. achylia...
13. † achymous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Deficient in chyme....
14. † acinacifolious, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of a plant: having acinaciform leaves....
15. aclastic, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of a substance: transparent but not refracting light that passes through it; not refractive....
16. † adipoceriform, adj. View full entry 1878
...Resembling adipocere....
17. † agrypnode, adj. View full entry 1879
...That prevents sleep....
18. † albiflorous, adj. View full entry 1879
...Having white flowers....
19. † albines, n. View full entry 1879
...In pl. Small colourless bodies found associated with aleurone grains, perh. spherosomes....
20. aleuronic, adj. View full entry 1879
...Of or containing aleurone; esp. designating the aleurone-rich layer around the endosperm of the seed of a cereal or other grass....
