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1. acanthocytosis, n. View full entry 1960
...A medical condition characterized by the presence of acanthocytes; spec. abetalipoproteinemia....
2. acepromazine, n. View full entry 1957
...A sedative and antipsychotic drug of the phenothiazine class, now used mainly as a tranquillizer and preanaesthetic in veterinary medicine....
3. acetozone, n. View full entry 1902
...A white crystalline solid with strong oxidizing properties, used as an antiseptic, disinfectant, and bleaching agent....
4. acetylcholinesterase, n. View full entry 1937
...An enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine, and is present at synapses and neuromuscular junctions to inactivate it after transmission of a nerve impulse; (also) any of a class of such enzymes....
5. acholuria, n. View full entry 1900
...Absence of bile pigments in the urine in certain types of jaundice, esp. that associated with chronic haemolytic anaemias. In early use also: a disorder giving rise to this, spec....
6. acholuric, adj. View full entry 1902
...Of types of jaundice: characterized by acholuria....
7. actograph, n. View full entry 1920
...A device for recording the movements of an animal, a sleeping person, or a fetus....
8. Addisonism, n. View full entry 1906
...Addison's disease; (also) chronic adrenocortical insufficiency from causes other than disease of the adrenal glands....
9. aerogenic, adj. View full entry 1911
...Med. Of, relating to, or designating the spread of an infectious agent or disease through the air or the air passages of the body....
10. agranulocytosis, n. View full entry 1923
...Absence or extreme reduction of granulocytes, esp. neutrophils, in the blood; severe granulocytopenia or neutropenia; an instance of this....
11. alastrim, n. View full entry 1911
...A mild form of smallpox with a low mortality rate, caused by a variola virus of reduced virulence. Also called variola minor....
12. alkalaemia | alkalemia, n. View full entry 1922
...A condition in which the blood has a higher pH than normal. Cf. acidaemia, alkalosis...
13. alkalotic, adj. View full entry 1922
...Of or relating to alkalosis; resulting from or exhibiting alkalosis....
14. allergic, adj. View full entry 1908
...Of the nature of allergy; of or relating to allergy; caused by allergy....
15. allergy, n. View full entry 1908
...Med....
16. allobarbitone, n. View full entry 1934
...A barbiturate compound used (esp. formerly) in the treatment of sleep disorders and pain....
17. alprenolol, n. View full entry 1967
...A beta blocker used in the treatment of hypertension, angina, and cardiac arrhythmias....
18. alypin, n. View full entry 1905
...A synthetic compound chemically similar to stovaine, (formerly) used as a local and spinal anaesthetic....
19. ambivalence | ambivalency, n. View full entry 1912
...The coexistence in one person of contradictory emotions or attitudes (as love and hatred) towards a person or thing. ...
20. amitriptyline, n. View full entry 1961
...A tricyclic antidepressant drug with sedative properties, C20H23N, given as the hydrochloride....
