Med. and surg. (a) Removal, amputation; ablacioun of blod, bloodletting; also, removal (of the cause of a disease); (b) loss of function (in a part of the body). …

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

(a) Phil. A non-essential or incidental characteristic, a temporary and variable property of a thing; bi accidence, through a secondary means, indirectly; of accidence, without affecting or involving……

Something that happens or occurs; a fortuitous happening. …

(a) Phil. Not a natural or essential part of a thing, non-essential, incidental, secondary; (b) not inherent in a thing, induced from without; (c) ?growing out of something else, ?outward, external. …

(a) A deed, an action (either physical or mental); process, operation, activity; (b) a written record of an action; Actes of Apostles, a book of the New Testament; (c) a state of accomplishment or……

(a) Math. The process of adding numbers together; summation; sum; (b) med. a gathering of pus, humors, etc.; process of coming to a head, formation of a pustule. …

To combine, collect, or gather (persons, things, qualities, etc.) into one body or sum. …

Med. A kind of polyp or nasal ulcer. …

Law The transfer of one's title to property or rights; alienation or sale (of property); surrender or loss (of a right); also, alteration (of a will) [quot. 1458]. …

(a) To alleviate, mitigate, or allay (suffering, grief, tribulation, etc.); (b) lighten or reduce (burdensome obligations, responsibilities, etc.); (c) reduce or remit (a penalty); (d) med. mitigate……

Aloe: (a) the tree; (b) the juice or resin of the tree, aloes; (c) med. the drug aloes; aloe caballinum (cicotrine, epatik). …

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) Change, transformation, transmutation; (b) change for the worse, deterioration; evel alteracioun; ill effect or result; (c) change for the better, amelioration……

Phil., physiol., med., alch.: (a) To change, modify, transform; alteraten to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect beneficially……

Phil., physiol., med., alch., astrol. (a) To change, modify, transform; alteren to (sth.); (b) to change for the worse; affect adversely; deteriorate; (c) to change for the better; affect……

(a) Correction; righting (of a wrong); med. rectification (of a condition); emendation (of a text); (b) repairing, mending. …

(a) A small flask [of glass or metal]; (b) a small flask of consecrated water or oil [commonly carried by pilgrims returning from a shrine]; ampulla. …

(a) a small ring; (b) Med. and anat. the 'cartilage of the windpipe' [Norri]; (c) her. a cadency mark in the shape of a ring. …

Logic & ethics A prior assumption or principle, a premise; antecedent trouth; antecedent ded, a preceding act as causing a later act. …

Med. The anthers or the pollen of the rose, used as a stiptic. …