| accumulation | (noun) the act of accumulating | Synonyms: accrual, accruement |
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| (noun) several things grouped together or considered as a whole | Synonyms: aggregation, assemblage, collection |
| (noun) (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation | - |
| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accretion |
| accumulator | (noun) a voltaic battery that stores electric charge | Synonyms: storage battery |
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| (noun) (computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register | Synonyms: accumulator register |
| (noun) a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) | Synonyms: collector, gatherer |
| altazimuth | (noun) an instrument that measures the altitude and azimuth of celestial bodies; used in navigation | - |
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| altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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| ammunition | (noun) projectiles to be fired from a gun | Synonyms: ammo |
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| (noun) information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint | - |
| (noun) any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction | - |
| amulet | (noun) a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease | Synonyms: talisman |
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| amusement | (noun) an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention | Synonyms: entertainment |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being entertained | - |
| animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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| antimuon | (noun) the antiparticle of a muon; decays to positron and neutrino and antineutrino | Synonyms: positive muon |
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| autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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| azimuth | (noun) the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian | Synonyms: AZ |
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| barramundi | (noun) a species of large perch noted for its sporting and eating qualities; lives in marine, estuary, and freshwater habitats | Synonyms: Asian seabass, giant perch, giant seaperch, Lates calcarifer, white seabass |
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| bemusement | (noun) confusion resulting from failure to understand | Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation, puzzlement |
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| bismuth | (noun) a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals | Synonyms: atomic number 83, Bi |
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| calamus | (noun) the hollow spine of a feather | Synonyms: quill, shaft |
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| (noun) any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes | - |
| (noun) perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots | Synonyms: Acorus calamus, flagroot, myrtle flag, sweet calamus, sweet flag |
| (noun) the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally | - |
| caprimulgid | (noun) mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects | Synonyms: goatsucker, nightjar |
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| cardamum | (noun) aromatic seeds used as seasoning like cinnamon and cloves especially in pickles and barbecue sauces | Synonyms: cardamom, cardamon |
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| chaulmugra | (noun) East Indian tree with oily seeds yield chaulmoogra oil used to treat leprosy | Synonyms: chaulmoogra, chaulmoogra tree, Hydnocarpus kurzii, Taraktagenos kurzii, Taraktogenos kurzii |
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| chemoimmunology | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: immunochemistry |
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| chiasmus | (noun) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | - |
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| chipmunk | (noun) a burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body | - |
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| chrysanthemum | (noun) any of numerous perennial Old World herbs having showy brightly colored flower heads of the genera Chrysanthemum, Argyranthemum, Dendranthema, Tanacetum; widely cultivated | - |
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| (noun) the flower of a chrysanthemum plant | - |
| cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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| communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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| (noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
| commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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| (noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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| (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
| (noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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| (noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
| (noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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| commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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| (noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| cornsmut | (noun) a smut fungus attacking Indian corn | Synonyms: corn smut |
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| cumulation | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulus, heap, mound, pile |
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| cumulonimbus | (noun) a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms | Synonyms: cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud |
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| cumulus | (noun) a collection of objects laid on top of each other | Synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, heap, mound, pile |
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| (noun) a globular cloud | Synonyms: cumulus cloud |
| curmudgeon | (noun) a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas | - |
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| cymule | (noun) a small cyme, generally with few flowers | - |
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| demulcent | (noun) a medication (in the form of an oil or salve etc.) that soothes inflamed or injured skin | - |
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| demur | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demurral, demurrer |
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| demureness | (noun) the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum | - |
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| (noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: coyness |
| demurrage | (noun) detention of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
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| (noun) a charge required as compensation for the delay of a ship or freight car or other cargo beyond its scheduled time of departure | - |
| demurral | (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurrer |
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| demurrer | (noun) a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him | Synonyms: defence, defense, denial |
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| (noun) (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings | Synonyms: demur, demurral |
| (noun) (law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadings | - |
| dissimulation | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissembling |
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| dissimulator | (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, hypocrite, phoney, phony, pretender |
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| earmuff | (noun) either of a pair of ear coverings (usually connected by a headband) that are worn to keep the ears warm in cold weather | - |
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| emu | (noun) any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism | Synonyms: electromagnetic unit |
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| (noun) large Australian flightless bird similar to the ostrich but smaller | Synonyms: Dromaius novaehollandiae, Emu novaehollandiae |
| emulation | (noun) effort to equal or surpass another | - |
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| (noun) (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another | - |
| (noun) ambition to equal or excel | - |
| emulator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, imitator |
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| emulsifier | (noun) a surface-active agent that promotes the formation of an emulsion | - |
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| emulsion | (noun) a light-sensitive coating on paper or film; consists of fine grains of silver bromide suspended in a gelatin | Synonyms: photographic emulsion |
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| (noun) (chemistry) a colloid in which both phases are liquids | - |
| emunctorium | (noun) a white linen cloth which is used to wipe the chalice after each communicant partakes. | Synonyms: purificator, purificatorium |
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| excommunication | (noun) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society | Synonyms: excision |
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| (noun) the state of being excommunicated | Synonyms: censure, exclusion |
| extremum | (noun) the point located farthest from the middle of something | Synonyms: extreme, extreme point |
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| (noun) the most extreme possible amount or value | Synonyms: peak |
| famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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| femur | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, thighbone |
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| formula | (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, normal, pattern, rule |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems | Synonyms: rule |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle | - |
| (noun) directions for making something | Synonyms: recipe |
| (noun) a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements | Synonyms: chemical formula |
| (noun) a liquid food for infants | - |
| formulary | (noun) (pharmacology) a book containing a compilation of pharmaceutical products with their formulas and methods of preparation | Synonyms: pharmacopeia |
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| formulation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualisation, conceptualization |
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| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: expression |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: preparation |
| gamut | (noun) a complete extent or range: | - |
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| (noun) the entire scale of musical notes | - |
| gemmule | (noun) the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity | - |
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| ginglymus | (noun) a freely moving joint in which the bones are so articulated as to allow extensive movement in one plane | Synonyms: ginglymoid joint, hinge joint |
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| gomuti | (noun) Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago | Synonyms: Arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm |
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| helianthemum | (noun) any plant of the genus Helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions | Synonyms: sun rose, sunrose |
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| hippopotamus | (noun) massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa | Synonyms: hippo, Hippopotamus amphibius, river horse |
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| homunculus | (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: manikin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell | - |
| hummus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, humous, humus |
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| humus | (noun) a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East | Synonyms: hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous |
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| (noun) partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil | - |
| hypothalamus | (noun) a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system | - |
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| ignoramus | (noun) an ignorant person | Synonyms: know nothing, uneducated person |
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| immune | (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
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| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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| (noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
| (noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| immunochemistry | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: chemoimmunology |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| immunogen | (noun) any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body | Synonyms: immunizing agent |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| immunoglobulin | (noun) a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response | Synonyms: Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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| immunology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system | - |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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