abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest)…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Pulmonology, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Hypoxia
oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
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(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(veterinary medicine) infestation with coccidia
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; "any food produced irritation of the stomach"
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(psychiatry) a disorder of memory in which dreams or fantasies are confused with reality
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.loss of hair (especially on the head) or loss of wool or feathers; in humans it can result from heredity or hormonal imbalance or cert…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.abnormal displacement of any wall that separates two chambers (usually in the nasal cavity)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.abnormal development (of organs or cells) or an abnormal structure resulting from such growth
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.a state of total unconsciousness resulting from anesthetic drugs (as for a major surgical operation)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.unusual darkening of the skin
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.unusual lack of skin color
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Words connected by meaning
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One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antag…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amoun…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.(computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; fre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.A very intense light, produced by turning two streams of gas, one oxygen and the other hydrogen, or coal gas, in a state of ignition,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.To drive from the stage by noisy expressions of disapprobation; to hoot off; to drive away or reject noisily; as, to explode a play.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.To drive about; to drive here and there.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.An acid containing hydrogen; -- sometimes applied to distinguish acids like hydrochloric, hydrofluoric, and the like, which contain no…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.Explore Academic Dictionary
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