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Acupressure
noun · 78% connection
treatment of symptoms by applying pressure with the fingers to specific pressure points on the body
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Acute
adjective · 78% connection
Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Acute-angled
adjective · 78% connection
Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Broncho-pneumonia
noun · 78% connection
Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Catarrhous
adjective · 78% connection
Catarrhal.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Catch
verb · 78% connection
To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Crisis
noun · 78% connection
That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Cutaneous
adjective · 78% connection
Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Dengue
noun · 78% connection
A specific epidemic disease attended with high fever, cutaneous eruption, and severe pains in the head and limbs, resembling those of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Ecthyma
noun · 78% connection
A cutaneous eruption, consisting of large, round pustules, upon an indurated and inflamed base.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Eczema
noun · 78% connection
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the disc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Efflorescence
noun · 78% connection
A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Encephalopathy
noun · 78% connection
Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Eruption
noun · 78% connection
The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Exanthema
noun · 78% connection
An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Exanthesis
noun · 78% connection
An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Herpes
noun · 78% connection
An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in sma…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
Impetigo
noun · 78% connection
A cutaneous, pustular eruption, not attended with fever; usually, a kind of eczema with pustulation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: acute, specific, disease, dusky, cutaneous.
