A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.
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Hypoxia
oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
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Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
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.The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rec…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable ki…
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.The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Environmental science, Conservation and biodiversity.Alt. of Alopecy
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 act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
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 or quality of being infertile; unproductiveness; barrenness.
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Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered.
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 consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: oxygen, deficiency, causing, strong, drive.The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
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 become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
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…
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