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1. abstersiǒun n.

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Surg. (a) The act or process of cleansing a wound or sore, the removal of pus or other impurities by means of cleansing medicines; (b) a detergent or cleansing property.

2. articūlāciǒun n.

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Anat. & surg. (a) A joint or joining (of bones); (b) setting (of bones or fractures).

3. astēl, astelle n.

Additional spellings: astelle
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(a) A billet or shingle; astel shid; (b) firewood; (c) surg. a splint.

4. calidicǒun n.

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Surg. A strong caustic medicine.

5. canal(e n.

Additional spellings: canale
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A pipe or tube.

6. cāne n.

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(a) A reed (esp., Arundo donax & Phragmites communis); (b) sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum); (c) a Javanese reed; prob., bamboo; (d) a fragrant reed of India and Persia.

7. canūle n.

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Surg. (a) A hollow sheath or tube through which a suturing needle or a cauterizing instrument is passed; fenestred canule, a tube with a hole, or window, in the side; (b) a tube inserted in the body…

8. cappe n.

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(a) A headdress, a hat; esp., a small head covering worn under the hood; (b) a priest's close-fitting cap, the coif covering the tonsure; also, any kind of head covering for ecclesiastics; (c) a…

9. carpīe n.

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Surg. Shredded linen, surgical lint.

10. clāvā̆le n.

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(a) A nail; (b) surg. a cauterizing instrument with a nail-shaped head; ?also, cauterization with such an instrument.

11. crepane n.

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Surg. An instrument used to cut small holes in the skull, a borer, trepan; 'instrument for removing discs of bone from skull, trepan' [Norri].

12. cultellāre n.

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Surg. A knife-shaped cauterizing instrument.

13. dē̆fensī̆f n.

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(a) Med. & surg. A medicine or ointment that prevents the growth or spread of disease, venom, humors, etc. [cp. defensif medecine]; (b) an ointment that preserves corpses.

14. dē̆fensī̆f adj.

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(a) Of weapons, armor: defensive; (b) med. & surg. of a bandage: preventing the spread of pus or other fluids; of a medicine or ointments: preventing the growth or spread of disease, preventive…

15. dēfensiǒun n.

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(a) Defense against physical attack; (b) reply, refutation; (c) fig. help; protection against temptation, sorrow, etc.; (d) punishment; (e) surg. a preventive measure or medicine.

16. dē̆fensōrie n.

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(a) That which defends, defense; (b) surg. a covering, protection.

17. dislōcāciǒun n.

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Surg. Dislocation of a bone; also, displacement of an organ.

18. faldella n.

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Surg. A compress made of small folds of cloth.

19. flẹ̄me n.(2)

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Surg. A lancet used for letting blood.

20. glūtinōsitẹ̄ n.

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Med. and surg. Of a medicine: capacity for sticking or causing adhesion, glutinosity.

21. gradūāl adj.

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Having steps or ridges; surg. gradual roundnesse, ridged bulges at the lower end of the humerus which form the joint with the bones of the forearm.

22. guides n. plural

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Surg. The jugular veins.

23. hūmectā̆tī̆f adj.

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(a) Med. Of food: increasing moisture in the body, diluent; (b) surg. of medicines: moistening, increasing moisture.

24. hūmiditẹ̄ n.

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(a) Moistness, dampness; (b) anat. & med. the primary quality of moistness.

25. hūmorā̆l adj.

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Med. & surg. Consisting of humors or of pus; filled with humors or with pus.

26. hūmorǒus adj.

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Surg. Characterized by an abundance of humors or of purulence.

27. imā̆ǧinātī̆f adj. & n.

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Phil. (a) Employing mental images; vertu imaginatif, the ability to form and retain images formed from data supplied from the senses or the communis sensus; also, the faculty of combining images into…

28. immissōrīe n.

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Surg. A probing instrument used to treat a stone in the bladder.

29. impellencie n.

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Surg. A blunt, concave instrument for driving an arrow or the like out of the body.

30. incarceren v.

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Surg. To stop up (an incision with a dressing or the like), pack.

31. incarnāciǒun n.

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(a) Theol. The Christian doctrine that God became man, Christ's incarnation; cristes incarnacioun, incarnacioun of the lord, etc.; taken incarnacioun of, to assume human form from (the Blessed…

32. incarnā̆tī̆f adj.

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Surg. (a) Of sutures, bandages, medicines: promoting the growth of new tissue in a wound or fracture; binding (ligature) incarnatif; seuinge incarnatif; (b) of medicines: promoting the closing of the…

33. indūrāciǒun n.

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(a) Med. & surg. The hardening of a bodily part, an inflammation, etc.; (b) alch. the hardening or congealing of soft materials.

34. indūratīve n.

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Surg. A medicine which hardens the callus exuded by the ends of a broken bone.

35. injectōrīe n.

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Surg. A device or utensil for pouring medicaments into an open sore.

36. inscī̆sī̆f adj. & n.

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Med. & surg. (a) Of medicines: having the property of dispersing, diluting, or dissolving viscous, thick, or heavy humor; (b) as noun: a medicine having such a property; (c) slashing, cutting.

37. inscī̆sǒurs n. plural

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Surg. An instrument shaped somewhat like shears for cutting off flesh in wounds or for cutting bones.

38. intrōjectōrīe n.

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Surg. A syringe.

39. intrōmisse n. singular & plural

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Surg. An instrument for probing or insertion.

40. intrōmissōrīe n.

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Surg. A probing instrument used to treat a stone in the bladder.

41. inviscāciǒun n.

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Med. & surg. A sticking together of parts of a wound, of the eyelids, etc.

42. laqueāciǒun n.

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Surg. The tying of a loop about a wounded part so as to restrain the flow of blood.

43. levatōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: levatorie
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Surg. An instrument, usually with an angled blade, used in trepanning and other operations to relieve pressure, free bone fragments, etc.

44. līchināciǒun n.

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Surg. The applying of lint tents or plugs to a wound.

45. līchine n.

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Surg. A plug for a wound, usually of absorbent material which was sometimes impregnated with a medicament.

46. linguāl(e n.

Additional spellings: linguale
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Surg. A tongue-shaped instrument for cauterization.

47. liquefactī̆ve adj.

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Surg. (a) Of a medicine: producing liquefaction of tissues, ?suppurative; (b) ?liquid, ?capable of becoming liquid.

48. lumbāre n.

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Surg. A sling or bandage used for a rupture.

49. lupia n.

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Surg. A small soft ulcer or swelling, resembling a hop cone.

50. lupīnōse adj.

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Surg. Of a pustule: shaped like the seed of the white lupine.

51. macillence n.

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Surg. A morbid smallness or shrinking.

52. magdalēọ̄n n.

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Surg. A small roll of plaster, salve, etc.

53. malignāte adj.

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Surg. Of ulcers: infected, ?gangrenous.

54. mirtīne n.(1)

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Surg. An instrument used for cauterizing, a cautery.

55. mordificātī̆ve adj.

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Med. & surg. (a) Distressing, tormenting; (b) corrosive; as noun: a caustic or corrosive medicine.

56. mortificāciǒun n.

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(a) Death; (b) renunciation of self and the world; mortificacioun of the flesh (bodi), mortificacioun of sinne, penitential asceticism.

57. mundificāciǒun n.

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Surg. (a) The process of cleansing a wound or sore, esp. by removing pus; (b) the cleansing property of a medicinal substance.

58. mundificātī̆f n.

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Med. & surg. (a) A cleansing substance used internally or externally; (b) an ointment, plaster, powder, or liquid for cleansing a wound or ulcer; mundificatif de apio, mundificatif of smal ache,

59. mundificātī̆f adj.

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Med. & surg. Cleansing.

60. nacta n.

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Surg. A large fleshy excrescence or swelling.

61. penetrātī̆f adj.

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(a) Med. & surg. Of medicines, ointments, etc.: penetrative, penetrating; (b) permeating, piercing; pungent, sharp; of the power of prayer: able to pierce.

62. pī̆lē̆r(e n.

Additional spellings: pilere
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(a) A pillar or column, either weight-bearing or free-standing; a pedestal; tre piler, piler of tre, a wooden pillar or post; (b) fig. a source of support, a supporter; the beam in the eye as referred…

63. plūmāciol n.

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Surg. A soft pad of wool, hards, cotton, etc., used on wounds; a compress, pledget.

64. potenciāl(e adj. Also plural (as n.)

Additional spellings: potenciale
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(a) Latent, potential; (b) surg. of a cautery or cauterizing agent: being a caustic or escharotic medicine used as an alternative to a hot iron; potencial cauterie, cauterie potencial.

65. prēservāciǒun n.

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(a) Protection, preservation; (b) a protective measure; (c) med. & surg. prophylaxis, protection from or prevention of a disease, morbid condition, etc.; -- usually with of- phrase; (d) a prophylactic…

66. prēservātī̆f adj.

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(a) Med. & surg. Of a treatment, regimen, etc.: serving to prevent or protect against a disease or morbid condition; preventive, prophylactic; also fig.; preservatif of; (b) of a treatment: tending to…

67. prē̆sse n.

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(a) A crowd, throng, company, an assembly; also, the assembling or gathering of a crowd; also, a group of things; (b) amid (among(es, in, in middes) presse, among or in a crowd; into presse, in among…

68. prohibitī̆f adj.

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Med. & surg. prohibitif of, preventive against (a morbid or pathological condition).

69. remollī̆tī̆f n.

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Surg. A softening medicine.

70. remollī̆tī̆f adj.

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Surg. Of a medicine: softening.

71. rīmel(e n.

Additional spellings: rimele
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Surg. A minute fissure in the brain.

72. ruptōrī(e n.

Additional spellings: ruptorie
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Med. & surg.: (a) A medicine that burns organic tissue by chemical action, a caustic or escharotic medicine; maken ruptori, to apply a caustic medicine (on the body); (b) the breaking or tearing open…

73. scaffe n.(2)

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Surg. A surgical apparatus, resembling a shoe or stirrup, used in gaining traction on a dislocated elbow.

74. scaraiāciọ̄n n.

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Surg. A scarifying.

75. scarpellāciǒun n.

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Surg. The making of shallow incisions as a means of letting blood, scarifying.

76. sē̆parā̆tōrīe n.

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Surg. A pointed instrument having a curved edge and used in removing sections of bone from the skull.

77. serrāten v.

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Surg. To saw off (an infected part of the body), amputate.

78. sī̆ringatoma n. plural

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Surg. Knives, hooked at the end and pointed.

79. sī̆ringing ger.

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Surg. Applying a siringe.

80. situāciǒun n.

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Surg. The act of setting a bone; in his due situacioun, in its correct position after setting.

81. situāten v.

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(a) In phrase: ben situate, to be located or situated; (b) surg. to put (sth.) into proper position, set.

82. spatadrape n.

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Surg. Cloth saturated in a resinous medicament, primarily used in binding dislocated or fractured bones; also, a piece of this cloth.

83. spatimene n.

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Surg. An instrument used to cut bone, a trepan.

84. squirle n.

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Surg. A splinter of bone from a fracture.

85. squirlǒus adj.

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Surg. Of a wound: containing splinters of fractured bone.

86. stū̆pāt(e n.

Additional spellings: stupate
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Surg. A small piece of cloth made from tow or other material, used in fomenting wounds and other applications, a stupe.

87. sustentā̆ment n.

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(a) The action of maintaining someone in power; (b) surg. a supporting bandage, binding, or similar device used to stabilize a part of the body.

88. taste n.(2)

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Surg. A probe.

89. tā̆sten v.

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(a) To exercise the sense of taste; perceive a flavor; also fig.; ppl. tastinge, pertaining to the sense of taste; (b) to perceive (a flavor), taste (sweetness, bitterness, etc.), perceive the flavor…

90. tent(e n.(3)

Additional spellings: tente
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(a) Med. A roll of some soft material, usu. linen or wax, sometimes medicated, placed in or near a wound to keep it open while it heals; a similar roll used as a suppository [quot. a1475]; also, a…

91. tortelle n.

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Surg. Some kind of instrument used in treating skull wounds, perh. a rasp.

92. trepanāciǒun n.

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Surg. The action of boring small holes in the skull.

93. trepanāten v.

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Surg. To bore small holes in (the skull) with a trepan.

94. trepane n.

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Surg. An instrument used to cut small holes in the skull, a borer, trepan.

95. trepanen v.

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Surg. To bore small holes in the skull; also, bore holes in (the skull) with a trepan.

96. turn(e n.

Additional spellings: turne
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A turn, rotation, or revolution about an axis or center; welkenes turn, the turning of the heavens.

97. ventōsāciǒun n.

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Surg. The act of drawing blood or other matter by means of a cupping glass.

98. ventọ̄se n.

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Surg. (a) An instrument for drawing blood or other matter out of the body, a cupping glass; ventose box (b) a similar instrument used to apply suction to a body part without promoting bleeding; (c)…

99. ventọ̄sen v.

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Surg. (a) To treat a patient by drawing blood or other matter with a cupping glass (b) to apply a cupping glass to (a wound, boil, etc.); also, treat (a patient) by bloodletting with a cupping glass;…

100. virgāle adj.

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Surg. Of a fracture: at a right angle to the axis of the bone, transverse.