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1. acācia, -ie n.

Additional spellings: acacie
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Med. A gum made from the juice of green plums or sloes (used as an astringent, a restringent, or a repercussive). …

2. cataracte n.

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(a) One of the 'floodgates' of heaven; cataracte of the ether; (b) med. a cataract of the eye. …

3. clistē̆r n.

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Med. (a) A clyster, enema; any medicinal liquid administered through the rectum; (b) the instrument for injecting such liquids, a sort of syringe. …

4. dīa- pref.

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Med. In names of pharmaceutical preparations, or drugs, usually indicating that the herb or the like which follows is the chief ingredient: (a) dia- bardich, some kind of drug; dia- borago, a drug……

5. diaquiloun n.

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Med. A lead plaster containing various plant extracts; 'plaster containing mucilages (in some recipes also juices) extracted from plants, litharge (lead monoxide), and olive oil.' [Norri]; diaquiloun……

6. discrāsīe n.

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(a) Med. A diseased condition of the body, or its parts, caused by an unfavorable combination of the humors; (b) fig. disharmony, disorder. …

7. epatī̆k adj.

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Med. and anat. (a) Affected with disease of the liver; (b) epatik veine the basilic vein; = epatica n., sense 1. …

8. īdō̆l(e n.

Additional spellings: idole
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(a) A man-made object representing a deity, an image of a god; (b) fig. someone who is false or untrustworthy. …

9. laump(e n.

Additional spellings: laumpe
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(a) A lamp of glass, metal, etc.; oil lamp; light; laump light, a lighted lamp; shinen as a laump, to shine like a lamp; (b) fig. a source of light or guidance; a star, the Virgin Mary; the fire of……

10. Nicholas n.

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(a) Personal name; -- often replacing Nicol in later ME; also, name of a ship; (b) seint Nicholas, St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra in Asia Minor; seint Nicholas chirche, chirche of seint Nicholas, a……

11. pleuresī n.

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Med. Inflammation of the membrane surrounding the lungs and lining the thoracic cavity, pleurisy; pleuresi flux, ?pleurisy with effusion of fluid. …

12. reume n.

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Med.: (a) A watery fluid or humor conceived as draining from the higher parts of the body, and capable of causing diseases; a secretion, flux; (b) a cold in the head; catarrh; reume in the hed; cold……

13. stomaticon n.

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Med. A digestive or purgative medicine of various kinds; stomaticon comfortativum; gretere stomaticon. …

14. timpanītēs n.

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Med. A disease in which the abdomen is distended by gas. …

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