| abirritant | That reduces irritation. Also as n.: a soothing drug, ointment, etc. Also fig. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ablastous | Lacking capacity for new growth; sterile, unfruitful. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| abnerval | Of an electrical current in muscle: moving away from the neuromuscular junction. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| abscedent | Of parts of the body: disunited or separated (as a result of disease). | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| accrementitial | = accrementitious adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| accrementition | Organic growth in which the new substance is exactly like that from which it proceeds; (more widely) accretion. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| acheilous | Having one or both lips absent. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achromatistous | Uncoloured; colourless. Cf. achromous adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achromous | Uncoloured; colourless. Cf. achromatistous adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achroous | Uncoloured; colourless. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achylia | Absent or reduced secretion by part of the digestive tract; esp. (more fully achylia gastrica… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achylous | Containing no (or little) chyle; failing to secrete chyle. Cf. achylia n. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| achymous | Deficient in chyme. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| acinacifolious | Of a plant: having acinaciform leaves. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| aclastic | Of a substance: transparent but not refracting light that passes through it; not refractive. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| adipoceriform | Resembling adipocere. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| agrypnode | That prevents sleep. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| albiflorous | Having white flowers. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| albines | In pl. Small colourless bodies found associated with aleurone grains, perh. spherosomes. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| aleuronic | Of or containing aleurone; esp. designating the aleurone-rich layer around the endosperm of the seed of a cereal or other grass. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| algefacient | Having a cooling effect. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| algetic | = algesic adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| alibility | The capacity of a nutrient to be assimilated. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| alliarious | = alliaceous adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| allochroic | Changeable in colour. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| alphitomorphous | Having the appearance of barley meal. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| alticomous | Having leaves on the higher parts only. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| alveolariform | = alveoliform adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ambrology | The natural history of amber, its formation, flora, fauna, etc. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ambrosiaceous | Akin to the genus Ambrosia. (Applied to a subdivision of Composite plants.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amelectic | Careless. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ametallous | Not of the nature of a metal, non-metallic. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ametrous | Having no uterus. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amidulin | A soluble preparation of starch, resembling sago. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ammophilous | Sand-loving; applied to plants or insects which inhabit sandy places. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amnemonic | Characterized by loss of memory. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amnestic | Causing loss of memory. (Said of diseases, poisonous agents, etc.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amorphophyte | A name given (after Necker) to plants having flowers of irregular or anomalous form. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amorphozoary | A compound or polypiform amorphozoic organism, as a mass of sponge. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amorphozoous | Related to or resembling the amorphozoa. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ampelideous | Belonging to the vine family; resembling the vine. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amphicyrtous | Curved on both sides, gibbous. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amphigen | A synonym of thallogen n., applied (after Brongniart) to those Cryptogams, which grow… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amphoricity | The quality of being amphoric; the condition in which an amphoric resonance is heard. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amplexatile | An epithet applied by L. C. Richard to a radicle that envelops the embryo. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amplexicaudate | Having the tail entirely enveloped in the interfemoral membrane. (Said of certain insects.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amplexicauline | = amplexicaul adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amplexifoliate | Having leaves which clasp the stem. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amygdalineous | Belonging to the almond tribe or sub-order of the Rosaceæ. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amylopsin | The amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amyosthenic | A medicine which depresses muscular action. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amyotrophic | Pertaining to amyotrophy. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| amyous | Wanting in muscle. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anabiotic | Acting as a stimulant or tonic. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anacampsis | Reflection; reaction. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anacrotic | Pertaining to, or exhibiting, anacrotism; dicrotic in the rise of the pulse. (More fully called anadicrotic adj.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anacrotism | A secondary oscillation or notch occurring in the upward portion of the curve obtained… | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anadicrotic | A fuller form of anacrotic adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaeretic | An agent which tends to destroy tissue. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaesthesiant | An agent of this nature; an anæsthetic. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anagennesis | A reproduction or regeneration of structure. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anandrious | Without virility; impotent. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anantherate | Not furnished with anthers. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaphroditic | Developed without concourse of sexes. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaphroditous | Without sexual appetite. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaplastic | Of or pertaining to anaplasty. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anaplasty | Reparation of external lesions by the use of adjacent healthy tissue. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anapnoic | Pertaining to respiration. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anarthria | Defective articulation in speech. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anastomosant | Anastomosing. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anatriptic | Belonging to friction, characterized by friction. (Applied to some medicines.) | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ancipitate | = ancipital adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| ancistroid | Hook-shaped. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| androgynary | Applied, after de Candolle, to flowers in which both stamens and pistils are developed into petals, as in the double narcissus. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| androgynic | Of androgynous nature or character. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| andropetalar | = andropetalous adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| androtomous | Having the filaments of the stamens divided into two parts. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anemious | Of plants: Windy, i.e. growing in windy and exposed situations. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anencephaloid | Partially, or tending to be, anencephalous. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anepiploic | Having no epiploon, or omentum. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anergia | Lack of mental energy, debility; passivity. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| anethated | Prepared or mixed with dill. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| angiograph | A special kind of sphygmograph or instrument for recording on paper the movements of the pulse. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| angiostomous | Having a narrow opening. (Applied to certain univalve shells.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anhidrotic | A medicinal agent of this nature. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anhistous | Of tissue: Without recognizable structure. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anhydric | = anhydrous adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anisanthous | Having perianths of different form. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anisated | Mixed or flavoured with aniseed. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anocarpous | Of ferns: Bearing fructification on the upper part of the frond. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anodontia | Congenital absence of some teeth. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anomaliflorous | | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anorectous | Without appetite. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anorganic | = inorganic adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anthophorous | Flower-bearing. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anthraciform | Having the form or appearance of anthrax. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antimeric | Of or characterized by antimeres. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-orgastic | Allaying passion or excitement, sedative. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antiscolic | Tending to prevent or expel worms, anthelmintic. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antiscrofulous | Tending to prevent or cure scrofula. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antivariolous | Good against smallpox. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antral | Of the nature of, or pertaining to, an antrum or cavity. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| antroversion | A turning forward; = anteversion n. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| apicilar | = apicular adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| apoious | Having no active qualities; neutral; e.g. water, starch. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| aponeurography | The description of aponeuroses. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| argentate | A combination of a base with argentic oxide, as in Argentate of Ammonia, or ‘fulminating silver’. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| arrhizous | = arrhizal adj. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| autocarpian | = autocarpous adj. 1. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| aveniform | Having the form or appearance of oats, oat-like. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| avenous | Without veins, veinless. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| balaniferous | Acorn-bearing. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| basculation | A term applied to the movement by which retroversion of the uterus is remedied. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| blastematic | = blastemal adj. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| blastous | Belonging to a germ or bud; germinal. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| brontolith | An aerolite. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| bullescence | A term applied to the condition occurring in leaves when the inter-venous structure rises… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cacogenesis | Morbid or depraved formation; a severe malformation, a morbid pathological product. Also transf. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cacothesis | A bad or faulty position of any part of the body. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| calamiform | Of the shape of a calamus, reed, or feather. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| camphorous | Of the nature of camphor, camphoraceous. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| canceratic | Of the nature of or relating to cancer. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cancerideous | = cancroid adj. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cannulate | = cannulated adj. 1. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| capillate | Furnished with hair. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| capitose | Obstinate, headstrong. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cataphoric | Of the action of an electric current: Carrying a fluid along with it, producing electric osmose. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| cauliflorous | Having flowers on the stem. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| caulin | The colouring principle of red cabbage. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| caumatic | Relating to the burning heat of a fever. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cellicolous | Living in cells or cavities. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| celology | That part of medical science which treats of hernia. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cenanthy | The absence of stamens and pistils in a flower. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cerebrifugal | An epithet of nerve-fibres which run from the brain to the spinal cord, and convey cerebral impulses outward. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| cerulescent | Tending to cerulean. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cerulic | (see quot.) | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| chiloma | The upper lip of a mammal when tumid and continued without interruption from the nose. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chlorophyte | (See quot. 1882) Obs. rare. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cholecyst | The gall-bladder (rare). | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chondriglucose | = chondroglucose n. at chondro- comb._form Affix. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| chondrose | The same as chondroglucose n. at chondro- comb._form Affix. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chondrosis | The formation of cartilage. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chromaphore | A variant of chromatophore n. 1. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chromism | Abnormal excess of coloration in plants. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chronothermal | Relating to time and temperature. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chroolepoid | Having small yellow scales. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chrysanthemous | = chrysanthous adj. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| chrysanthous | Having yellow flowers. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| ciliiferous | Bearing cilia. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cilio-spinal | In ciliospinal centre, the direct centre in the spinal chord, where the nerve-fibres… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| cincinnal | Belonging to a cincinnus. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| clinanthium | The receptacle or torus of a Composite flower. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| clinicist | = clinician n. 1. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| clysmian | (See quot. 1882.) | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cochlearifoliate | Having spoon-shaped leaves. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cochleiform | Formed like a snail-shell. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| colliform | Neck-shaped; in Entomol. having the form of a collar: see collar n. 17b. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| collin | A term applied to absolutely pure gelatine. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| colpeurynter | An instrument for dilating the vagina. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| columellate | Possessing a columella. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| comal | Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a coma n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| conamarin | A bitter principle said to exist in Conium maculatum. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| concaulescence | The coalescence of separate axes, e.g. of the leaf-stalk and stem. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| conceptaculum | See conceptacle n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| concineration | ‘Thorough reduction to ashes’. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| concolorate | = concolorous adj. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| confusional | Characterized by (mental) confusion: in confusional insanity (see quot. 1887). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| congestiparous | ‘Applied to remedies which produce congestion or the different forms of Contrafluxion’. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| connecticle | The elastic ring of the spore-case of ferns. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| connexivum | The expanded border of the sides of the abdominal segments in hemipterous insects (bugs). | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| conquassant | Shaking severely: see quot. 1882. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| consonate | intr. To sound in sympathy. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| contrafluxion | A congestion of a part, produced by artificial means, for therapeutical purposes. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| contralateral | That is on the opposite side. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| copaline | Another name of Copalm Balsam. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| coquetta | In coquetta bark, name of a non-officinal bark obtained from Cinchona lancifolia. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| coracosteon | A term applied to an additional symmetrical osseous centre formed in the sternum in certain birds. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cormogenous | Belonging to or resembling a cormogen; also, corm-bearing. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cormoid | Resembling a corm. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| corollar | Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a corolla. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cremasteric | Of or pertaining to the cremaster. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| crustaceorubrin | A red colouring matter found in the bodies of some Crustacea. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cutigeral | Carrying or bearing skin. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cyanescent | Inclining to cyaneous; of a dark bluish colour. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cyathoid | Resembling a cup or drinking-glass. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| cyclicotomy | Division of the ciliary body. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dactyloid | Resembling a finger. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| deliriant | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| delphinoidine | An amorphous alkaloid obtained from the same source as delphinine. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| delphisine | An alkaloid akin to delphinoidine, obtained from the same source, in warty crystals. Also called Delphisia. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dentinoid | Like or of the character of dentine. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| deplanate | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| deplumate | Stripped of feathers, deplumed. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| desmous | Ligamentous. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| despumate | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| devehent | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dexiotrope | = dexiotropic adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diacanthous | Having two spines. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diacausis | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diacenous | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diacranteric | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diahydric | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diapyesis | Suppuration. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diathermometer | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diathesic | = diathetic adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diencephalon | The middle brain; that division of the brain between the mesencephalon and… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| digenetic | Relating to or characterized by digenesis. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dilatometer | An instrument for determining the dilatation or expansion of a liquid by heat. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diœcio- | comb. f. diœcious adj., = diœciously; as diœciodimorphous, diœciopolygamous. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dioic | = diœcious adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diplegia | Paralysis affecting corresponding parts on both sides of the body. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dipsopathy | The treatment of disease by abstinence from liquids. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| diptychous | Double-folded. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| disciferous | Bearing a disc or discs. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dispansive | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dissociant | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| distemonous | Having two stamens; = diandrous adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| distylous | Having two styles. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dithecal | = dithecous adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| divergentiflorous | Having diverging flowers. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| divergi- | combining form abbreviated from divergenti- (see above); e.g. divergiˈnervious adj. Bot.… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dolichopodous | Having long feet. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dolioloid | (See quot. 1883.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| dourine | A contagious disease of horses transmitted by copulation and caused by the parasite Trypanosoma equiperdum. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dromograph | An instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood current. Also attrib. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| duboisine | An alkaloid obtained from the Australian solanaceous shrub Duboisia myoporioides… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| ecrhythmous | | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| egranulose | Without granules. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| emeto-cathartic | A substance having this power. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| endogenesis | The production of structures or bodies within the organism. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| endogeny | = endogenesis n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| entosthoblast | (See quot. 1884.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| epalpate | Having no palpi or feelers. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| epalpebrate | Having no eyebrows. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| epimere | Zool. = epimeron n., in various senses. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| eupnoic | Relating to eupnœa; breathing easily and freely. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| eutrophic | A eutrophic medicine. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| evolutility | The capacity of living organisms and cells to utilize energy from the nutritive process to change their form or structure. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| excalcarate | = ecalcarate adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| excurved | Curved outwards (as the antennæ of certain insects). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| exencephalus | A severe malformation where the brain lies partially or completely outside the skull. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| exine | = extine n. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| faecation | | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| farreous | (See quot. 1884.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fattily | As by a morbid deposition of fat. Only in fattily-degenerated. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| fatuism | = fatuity n. 2. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| feculite | (See quot. 1884.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fellic | Only in fellic acid (see quot. 1889). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| felliducous | (See quot. 1884.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fibrination | The action or process of adding fibrin to the blood. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| ficiform | Fig-shaped. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| ficous | | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| filamentoid | Having the appearance of a filament; like a filament. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| filicauline | Having a threadlike stem. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| filicology | The science or study of ferns. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| filoplume | (See quot. 1890.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fimbrilla | A minute fringe. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fimbrillose | Bearing a fimbrilla. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| florideous | Belonging to the Florideæ, an order of Algæ, or having the characters of that group. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| foraminulate | = foraminulous adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| foraminulose | = foraminulous adj. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| frondiform | Having the shape of a frond. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| frondigerous | Bearing fronds. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| fructule | (See quot. 1885.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| galactoid | Milk-like; milky. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| genian | = genial adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| genuclast | (See quot.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| gigantism | In plants: excessive size due to polyploidy. Also fig. Cf. giantism n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| glabreity | Baldness; want of hair. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| glandaceous | Acorn-coloured. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| glut- | = glutamic amide. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| glycerized | Compounded with glycerine. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| gratiolin | A bitter resinous principle obtained from Gratiola officinalis. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| guttule | A small drop. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| gutturniform | (See quot. 1886.) | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| gyrophoric | Only in gyrophoric acid (see quot. 1886). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| habitus | = habit n. 5 6. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| habroneme | Having the appearance of fine threads. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| haematal | Relating to the blood or blood vessels. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| haemautograph | The apparatus used in tracing the pulse-curve obtained by opening an artery and… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| haemoid | = haematoid adj. a. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| haemophobia | Fear or horror at the sight of blood. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| halatinous | Saline, salt. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hastifoliate | Having spear-shaped leaves. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hastiform | Spear-shaped. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| helioid | | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Henlean | the elastic fenestrated membrane forming the outer layer of the innermost coat of an artery. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Henry | The name of William Henry (1774 – 1836), English chemist, used in Henry's law (see quot. 1940). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hepaticous | Lobed like the liver. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| herbicolous | Growing on herbaceous plants, as a fungus. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| heterotomic | = heterotomous adj. 1. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| histic | Of or relating to animal or plant tissues. Now rare. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| homotypic | Of the character of, or relating to, a homotype; homologous. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hormogone | A special reproductive body in the Nostocs, consisting of a chain of roundish cells. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyalose | A dextro-rotatory sugar obtained from the hyalin of a hydatid cyst. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hydatoid | Resembling water, watery, aqueous. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hydropneumonia | Dropsy or œdema of the lungs. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrotimeter | An apparatus for testing the hardness of water, consisting of a graduated tube to… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hymenal | Of or relating to the hymen, as in hymenal caruncles. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hymenicolar | Inhabiting the hymenium of fungi. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hymenoid | Resembling a membrane; having a membranous structure. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyometer | A rain gauge. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypacusis | Diminished acuteness of hearing. Cf. hyperacusis n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypaesthesia | Diminished capacity for sensation; dulled sensitiveness. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperchromatosis | Med. Excessive colouring or pigmentation, esp. of the skin. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperopia | = hypermetropia n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyperthermia | The condition of having a body temperature substantially above the normal either as a… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hyphaemia | Extravasation of blood. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypnic | Of, pertaining to, or inducing sleep. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypnone | A name given to acetophenone, C 6 H 5.CO.CH 3, as a hypnotic. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypothermia | The condition of having a body temperature substantially below the normal, either as a… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypotonia | Ophthalmol. A state of reduced pressure of the intra-ocular fluid. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hypsiloid | Shaped like the Greek letter upsilon, or its Roman equivalents; V-shaped, or U-shaped. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hysterectomy | Excision of the uterus. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| hystricism | The porcupine disease, an extreme form of ichthyosis (ichthyosis hystrix), in which… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| iatromechanics | With sing. concord. = iatromathematics n. b. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| iatrophysics | With sing. concord. = iatromathematics n. b. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| ignipuncture | Puncture with a white-hot styliform cautery. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inalbuminate | Not furnished with albumen; exalbuminous. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inassimilable | Not assimilable, not capable of assimilation. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| indogen | A name for the group C 6 H 4 CO NH C= the double molecule of which… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| indoxyl | A brownish oil, C 8 H 7 NO, isomeric with oxindole, formed, with evolution of carbonic… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| infringent | Of a medicine: Rendering milder; = corrigent adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| infusor | One who or that which infuses; spec.: see quot. 1886. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| iniac | = inial adj. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inolith | A calcareous concretion in a fibrous tissue. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| insensibilize | trans. To render insensible. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inseparation | The congenital union of contiguous organs, viewed as the natural or primitive state; as… | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| inter-brain | The middle brain; = diencephalon n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| interchondral | Situated or occurring between cartilages, esp. those of the ribs. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| intravertebrate | Having an internal bony skeleton; = vertebrate adj. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| iodol | A brown inodorous powder, the tetra-iodide of pyrrol (C 4 I 4 NH), used as an antiseptic dressing instead of iodoform. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| jaborine | An alkaloid contained, together with pilocarpine, in the leaves of jaborandi: see jaborandi n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| jejunal | Of or pertaining to the jejunum. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| jugate | Bot. Of a pinnate leaf: Having leaflets in pairs; usually in combination (see bi- prefix, multi-… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| keratinization | The change to a more horny texture of the cells of the epidermis, as they are pressed out by the growth of younger cells beneath. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| keratolysis | ‘Auspitz's term for a diminished growth of the horny part of the epidermis’ (New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1887). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| koroscopy | Landolt's name for the ‘shadow-test’ for the refraction of the eye. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| kypho- | a combination of kyphosis and scoliosis; backward and lateral curvature of the spine. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| lamellule | A small lamella. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lanthopine | An alkaloid found in opium. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lanuginic | see quot. 1888. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| laryngectomy | The excision of the larynx. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lathyrism | A condition produced by the use as food of the seeds of some species of the genus Lathyrus.… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| leucotic | Of, pertaining to, or affected with leucosis (in any sense). | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| lignosity | The condition of being ligneous or woody. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| limacine | Pertaining to the sub-family Limacinæ or family Limacidæ of land-snails, typified by the genus Limax; limaceous. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| linition | The application of a liniment. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| Listerine | An antiseptic solution (see quot. 1889). | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lithophone | An instrument for rendering audible the contact of a sound or probe with a vesical calculus. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lithospermous | Having hard, stony fruit. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| locule | = loculus n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| loxotic | = loxic adj. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lupiform | Of the form of or resembling lupus. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lymphaemia | (See quot.) | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lympho- | (a) producing lymph or lymphocytes; (b) arising in, produced by, or disseminated via the lymphatic system. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lymphœdema | Œdema resulting from obstruction of lymph vessels or lymph nodes. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lyssophobia | A morbid dread of hydrophobia, the symptoms of which sometimes simulate those of the actual disease. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| lytic | Med. Of, pertaining to, or causing a lysis (sense 2). | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| macrocephalia | = macrocephaly n. Also fig. Also: †the quality of having a long head (obs. rare). | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| macrocephaly | The condition of having an abnormally large head. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| macrocyte | An abnormally large red blood cell, found particularly in some forms of anaemia. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| macroporous | Characterized by or containing large pores or macropores. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| malarioid | Resembling malaria. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| maleinic | = maleic acid n. at maleic adj. 1. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| mallear | Of or relating to the malleus of the ear; = malleal adj. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| mammole | The edible fruit of a tropical American prickly pear, Opuntia tuna. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| mammulose | Having mammulae; (also) finely mannose. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| marginicidal | Designating dehiscence in which the septa break away from the united margins of the carpels. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| marsupialization | The formation of a pouch or pouch-like cavity; spec. an operative technique for draining a… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| massiform | In the form of a mass. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| meatotomy | Surgical incision into the urethral meatus; an instance of this. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| mechanotherapy | A form of physiotherapy using mechanical equipment to manipulate parts of the body, along with other exercises, massage, etc. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mechlorinic | = mechloic acid n. at mechloic adj. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mecistocephalous | = mecistocephalic adj. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| megacheilous | Having large lips. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| megagnathous | Having a large jaw. Cf. macrognathous adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| melalgia | Pain in the limbs (esp. in a patient with tuberculosis). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| melanodermic | Med. Relating to or affected with melanoderma. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| melitagrous | Designating a honey-like secretion of the skin produced as a result of disease or irritation. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| melliform | Resembling honey. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| melligenous | Producing honey. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| membranulet | = membranula n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| menstruated | Of a woman: subject to menstruation. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mentism | Disruption of rational thought by overwhelming emotion or vivid imagination. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mentulate | Having a (large) penis. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mesarteritic | Caused by or characteristic of mesoarteritis. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mesognathism | The fact or condition of being mesognathous. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mesomyodic | = mesomyodian adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mesophyte | In J. Clarion's terminology: the line of demarcation between the stem and the root of a plant. Obs. rare. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mesoxalyl | The divalent radical —(CO) 3 — derived from anhydrous mesoxalic acid. Obs. rare. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| metallescent | = metallic adj. 5a. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| metapterygian | = metapterygial adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| miasmifuge | Capable of destroying or dispersing miasma. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| microbious | = microbial adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| microchemic | = microchemical adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| microencephaly | The condition of having a small brain (often associated with microcephaly). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| microgram | One millionth of a gram. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| micrologue | = microscopist n. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| micromania | The delusion that the body or part of it has become abnormally small. Also: a… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| microporous | Containing micropores; finely porous. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| microspectroscopy | The use of a microspectroscope; spectroscopic analysis of microscopic objects; high-resolution spectroscopy. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| milleflorous | Of a plant: having many flowers. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| millefoliate | Of a plant: having leaves which are so deeply notched around the edges as to give the effect of many smaller leaves. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| millepunctate | Covered with a multitude of points. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| minerality | Mineral quality. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| miniate | = miniaceous adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mogilalism | = mogilalia n. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| mollicinous | That softens or mollifies. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| monandric | Bot. Of or relating to the Linnaean class Monandria. rare. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| monocephaly | Bot. The condition of being monocephalic or monocephalous. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| monochorea | Chorea of a single part of the body, such as an arm. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| monogynic | Bot. = monogynous adj. 1. Obs. rare. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| monospermic | Bot. = monospermous adj. Now rare. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| monosporogony | A mode of asexual reproduction in which a single cell of the parent organism detaches and develops into a new individual. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| monosubstituted | Formed by or exhibiting monosubstitution. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| monothalloid | Having a single or undivided thallus. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| monothamnoid | = monothalloid adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morphiated | Containing morphia; drugged with morphia. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morphinated | Containing morphine; drugged with morphine. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| morphinic | Of, relating to, or containing morphine; resembling morphine. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morphoscopy | = morphology n. 1. Obs. rare. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morphotomy | Anatomy. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morrhuinic | an organic compound isolated from cod liver oil (not identified). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| morular | Of, relating to, resembling, or of the nature of a morula; (also) resembling a mulberry (in shape, outline, etc.). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| multivalvate | Having more than two valves. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| mycelian | = mycelial adj. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| myelination | The process of forming a myelin sheath or developing myelinated nerve fibres; the state of being myelinated. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| myelopathy | Disease, degeneration, or dysfunction of the spinal cord; an instance of this. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| myeloplast | A giant cell (of bone); = myeloplax n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| myoctoninic | = myoctonic adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| myricic | = melissyl alcohol n. at melissyl n. Compounds. Obs. rare. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| nephelometric | Of, relating to, or measured by nephelometry. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| neurectome | A surgical instrument used to perform a neurectomy. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| neurotization | Regeneration of a severed or damaged nerve; (also) spontaneous regrowth or surgical… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| nicotinism | Poisoning by nicotine; addiction to nicotine. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| nucal | Of or relating to a nut. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| nucleolule | A granule in a nucleolus. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| olecranial | = olecranal adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| oligospermic | Of a person: affected with oligospermia. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| onanistic | Relating to, characteristic of, or reminiscent of onanism. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| opto-striate | Relating to or consisting of both the optic thalamus and the corpus striatum. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| osteophone | A type of hearing aid utilizing bone conduction of sound. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| ovism | The theory that the ovum holds all the material necessary for development of the embryo… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| oxyhaemocyanin | Oxygenated haemocyanin, which is blue in colour. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| pachyhaemia | Excessive thickness of the blood. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pachyhaemous | Having thick blood. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| parallelinervous | = parallelinervate adj. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pararabin | A carbohydrate present in agar and also obtained from carrots and beet. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| perline | = perlid adj. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pharbitin | A glycosidal resin obtained from the seeds of a morning glory, Ipomoea (formerly Pharbitis)… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| phellandrene | Each of two isomeric cyclic terpenes having the formula C 10 H 16 (more fully α-phellandrene… | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| phrenograph | Med. An instrument for recording the movements of the diaphragm. Cf. phrenogram n. at phreno- comb._form 2. Obs. rare. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| phytochrome | Xanthophyll; chlorophyll. rare and disused. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| pluricipital | Having multiple stems or axes growing from a single caudex. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| pluriflorous | Having many flowers. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| precordialgia | Pain occurring in or referred to the precordium. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| preembryo | Bot. A small apical cell that results from the asymmetric cell division of the… | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| pyromel | Treacle. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| saccharon | A white crystalline substance obtained by the oxidation of saccharin; the lactone of saccharonic acid. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| salumin | Salicylate of aluminium used in nose and throat diseases. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| sanguinicolous | = sanguicolous adj. | 1897 | Go To Quotation |
| selliform | Saddle-shaped. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| sentisection | The dissection of a living animal without an anæsthetic. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| steppage | A peculiar high-stepping gait characteristic of certain nervous diseases. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| sterilizator | = sterilizer n. 2. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| strychninization | The act of applying strychnine. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| synovin | The form of mucin occurring in synovia. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| tannigen | A compound of tannin and acetyl, used as an intestinal astringent; acetyl-tannin. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| thalamo- | the cavity of the thalamencephalon; the third ventricle of the brain. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| theriodic | Of ulcers, etc., Malignant. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| thermodin | Trade name: see quot. 1899. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| thiuret | A light odourless crystalline powder, C 8 H 7 N 3 S 2, used as a substitute for idioform as an antiseptic. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| torsocclusion | Treatment by acupressure combined with torsion. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| Tourette | Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate… | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| transductor | That which draws across: applied to a muscle of the great toe. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| traumatol | Trade-name of an iodo-orthocresol, a reddish powder used as a dressing for wounds. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| tremogram | An irregularity characterizing a person's handwriting: see quot. 1907. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| trochiferous | Bearing a wheel-like or trochal organ, as a rotifer; rotiferous. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| tympanicity | The condition of being tympanic, or affected with tympanites. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| vaccinable | Capable of being successfully vaccinated. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| xiphocostal | Pertaining to or connected with the xiphoid cartilage and the ribs. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
