| acupuncture | A method of medical treatment, originating in China, in which fine needles are inserted… | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| agglutinant | Med. Of a medicine or food: (supposedly) having the property of adhering to tissue… | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| anous | = anal adj. n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| anthelminthic | Of use against intestinal worms. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| aphony | Inability to produce vocal sound; total loss of voice. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| articulous | Of the nature of a joint; affecting or involving a joint; having joints, articulated. Cf. articular adj. 2. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| ascitic | Of, pertaining to, or affected with ascites. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| assimilant | An assimilating agent. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| atrabilarious | Of or relating to black bile. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| attemperating | Suitable modification or regulation. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| attemperating | That attempers, modifies, or regulates. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| attenuater | = attenuant n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| attractory | Acting as an attractor (of humours, etc.). | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| balsamous | = balsamic adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cacatory | Attended with looseness of the bowels. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cacoethic | Obstinate or malignant. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| caducous | Subject to the ‘falling sickness’, epileptic. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cannula | A tubular instrument introduced into a cavity or tumour in order to allow the escape of fluid. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cannulated | Made of a tubular shape, tubular. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cataleptic | Affected by catalepsy. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| clysmatic | A method of injection or infusion; transfusion. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| concoquent | Digestive. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| convulse | Convulsed. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cruciate | as n. = crucial adj. incision. Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| cultellary | Having the form of a knife. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| declivous | Having a downward inclination; sloping, slanting. (Now rare exc. as in b.) | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| depurative | Having the quality of cleansing from impurities. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| derasion | A scraping or shaving off. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| deterse | By-form of deterge v. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| detumefy | intr. To lose swollen condition, subside from being swollen. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| diacrisis | = diagnosis n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| dissipative | Tending to dissipate, having the property of dissipating. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| dyscratic | Affected with dyscrasy; distempered. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| effervescent | That is in a state of bubbling heat. Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| empyic | That suffers from empyema n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| endemious | = endemic adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| epicerastic | Tempering the acrimony of the humours; emollient. Also as n. in pl. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| erysipelaceous | = erysipelatous adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| euphoria | Pathol. (See quot.) Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| excandescence | The action of bursting into a glow; the condition of giving out a glowing heat; a heated condition. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| exsanguous | = exsanguious adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| exsquamate | intr. Of a bone, etc.: To scale off or come off in scales; to desquamate, exfoliate. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| extumescency | = extumescence n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| faecula | ‘The sediment or lees which subsides from the infusion of many vegetable substances, esp.… | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| felleous | = biliary adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| fermentescible | Capable of being fermented. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| glutinant | = glutinative adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| grumefaction | The formation of a grume or clot of blood. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| grumescence | Tendency to form clots. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| grumescent | Having a tendency to coagulate. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| gummatous | Of the nature of or resembling a gumma. gummatous tumour = gumma n. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| gustatory | Pertaining to or concerned with tasting or the sense of taste. gustatory nerve (Anat.)… | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| haemophobous | Afraid of blood, averse to bloodletting. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| hamulous | = hamulose adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| head-mould | The skull. Only in head-mould-shot n. see quot. 1719. head-mould-shottenness n. see quot. 1684. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrophobous | = hydrophobic adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| ichorescent | Growing or becoming ichorous. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| igniparous | (See quot. 1684.) | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| imperspirable | Incapable of perspiration. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| imputrid | Not putrid: applied to a fever. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| incoctible | Indigestible. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| incoctile | Crude, raw. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| indextrous | Void of dexterity; clumsy, awkward. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| influxed | That has flowed in. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| infusory | Of or pertaining to (surgical) infusion or injection. Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| jecorary | Belonging to the liver; hepatic. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| latic | A quotidian fever, or phlegmatic fever, in which there are no symptoms of apyrexy or intermission (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1855). | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| lienary | = lienal adj. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| melligineous | Resembling honey. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| miliaceous | Of the nature of milia; resembling a millet seed. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| mucosity | A mucous secretion, a slimy covering. Also: a fluid containing or resembling mucus. Now rare. Perh. disused. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| murcous | That lacks a thumb. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| obviscate | trans. To mollify; to lessen the harshness or intensity of. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| ooziness | The quality of being oozy or muddy; (also) ooze, mud; (fig.) lack of firmness or rigour. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| panacaeon | = panacea n. 1. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| peripneumonic | Of, relating to, or of the nature of peripneumonia; affected with peripneumonia. Now rare or disused. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| pication | The application of warm pitch to the skin (as a method of treatment for paralysis). | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| pyrurgian | A physician who uses, or specializes in the use of, caustic remedies. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| recludent | Designating the muscle (the levator palpebrae superioris) that raises the upper eyelid and opens the eye. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| repriment | A medicine or treatment that suppresses a disease. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| salification | Conversion into a salt; the action or condition of being salified. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| sanguific | Blood-producing. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| sanguifluous | Flowing with blood. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| scaturient | That flows out or gushes forth. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| soporous | = soporose adj. ? Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| spirituascence | Spirituosity. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| stimulating | Physiol. and Med. = stimulant adj. 2a 2c. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| stimulus | Physiol. Something that acts as a ‘goad’ or ‘spur’ to a languid bodily organ; an… | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| stupefier | Something that stupefies; a medicine that produces stupor. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| subintrant | A subintrant fever or attack of another disease. Now rare. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| submucous | Med. Somewhat mucous; partly consisting of mucus. Obs. rare. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| varication | Pathol. Varicose condition or formation. Obs. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
| varicle | A varicose tumour or swelling. | 1684 | Go To Quotation |
