adenopathy | (noun) a glandular disease or enlargement of glandular tissue (especially of the lymph glands) | - |
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allopathy | (noun) the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself | - |
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allopatry | (noun) the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap | - |
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angiopathy | (noun) any disease of the blood vessels or lymph ducts | - |
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anthropopathism | (noun) Attribution of human feelings to things not human, such as inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena. | - |
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anticipation | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: prediction, prevision |
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(noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: expectancy |
(noun) anticipating with confidence of fulfillment | Synonyms: expectation |
anticipator | (noun) one who anticipates | Synonyms: anticipant |
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antipathy | (noun) the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided | - |
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(noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: aversion, distaste |
apathy | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: indifference, numbness, spiritlessness |
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(noun) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm | - |
apatite | (noun) a common complex mineral consisting of calcium fluoride phosphate or calcium chloride phosphate; a source of phosphorus | - |
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apatosaur | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaurus, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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apatosaurus | (noun) huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | Synonyms: apatosaur, Apatosaurus excelsus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard |
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arthropathy | (noun) a pathology or abnormality of a joint | - |
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baldpate | (noun) a widgeon the male of which has a white crown | Synonyms: American widgeon, Anas americana |
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(noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldy, skin, skinhead |
brierpatch | (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants | Synonyms: brier, brier patch |
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bypath | (noun) a side road little traveled (as in the countryside) | Synonyms: byroad, byway |
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cardiomyopathy | (noun) a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | Synonyms: myocardiopathy |
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cardiopathy | (noun) a disease of the heart | Synonyms: heart disease |
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chapati | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapatti |
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chapatti | (noun) flat pancake-like bread cooked on a griddle | Synonyms: chapati |
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compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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(noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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constipation | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: deadening, impairment, stultification |
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(noun) irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis | Synonyms: irregularity |
crosspatch | (noun) a bad-tempered person | Synonyms: churl, crank, grouch, grump |
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cryopathy | (noun) destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | Synonyms: frostbite |
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despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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(noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
(noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
dispatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: despatch, shipment |
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(noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: despatch |
(noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: despatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
(noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, despatch |
dispatcher | (noun) the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition | Synonyms: starter |
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(noun) employee of a transportation company who controls the departures of vehicles according to weather conditions and in the interest of efficient service | - |
dissipation | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, profligacy |
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(noun) useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly | Synonyms: waste, wastefulness |
(noun) breaking up and scattering by dispersion | - |
emancipation | (noun) freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child | - |
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emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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emancipator | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: manumitter |
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empathy | (noun) understanding and entering into another's feelings | - |
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encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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enteropathy | (noun) a disease of the intestinal tract | - |
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episcopate | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopry |
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(noun) the collective body of bishops | Synonyms: episcopacy |
(noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: bishopric, diocese |
(noun) the term of office of a bishop | - |
exculpation | (noun) the act of freeing from guilt or blame | - |
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(noun) a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc. | Synonyms: alibi, excuse, self-justification |
expat | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
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expatiation | (noun) a discussion (spoken or written) that enlarges on a topic or theme at length or in detail | - |
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expatriate | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expat |
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expatriation | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, exile, transportation |
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(noun) migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) | Synonyms: emigration, out-migration |
extirpation | (noun) surgical removal of a body part or tissue | Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, excision |
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(noun) the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence | Synonyms: deracination, excision |
extirpator | (noun) a farm implement used to remove weeds. | - |
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eyepatch | (noun) a protective cloth covering for an injured eye | Synonyms: patch |
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fluorapatite | (noun) a form of apatite in which fluorine predominates over chlorine | - |
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footpath | (noun) a trodden path | Synonyms: pathway |
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gammopathy | (noun) a disturbance in the synthesis of immunoglobulins; proteins having antibody activity increase greatly in the blood | - |
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haemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: hemoglobinopathy |
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hemoglobinopathy | (noun) a blood disease characterized by the presence of abnormal hemoglobins in the blood | Synonyms: haemoglobinopathy |
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hepatic | (noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses | Synonyms: liverwort |
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hepatica | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hepatica having three-lobed leaves and white or pinkish flowers in early spring; of moist and mossy subalpine woodland areas of north temperate regions | Synonyms: liverleaf |
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(noun) a common liverwort | Synonyms: Marchantia polymorpha |
hepatitis | (noun) inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin | - |
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hepatocarcinoma | (noun) carcinoma of the liver | Synonyms: hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatoma, malignant hepatoma |
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hepatoflavin | (noun) a B vitamin that prevents skin lesions and weight loss | Synonyms: lactoflavin, ovoflavin, riboflavin, vitamin B2, vitamin G |
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hepatoma | (noun) carcinoma of the liver | Synonyms: hepatocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, malignant hepatoma |
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hepatomegaly | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: megalohepatia |
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hepatotoxin | (noun) any toxin that affects the liver | - |
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histocompatibility | (noun) condition in which the cells of one tissue can survive in the presence of cells of another tissue | - |
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histoincompatibility | (noun) incompatibility in which one person's tissue cannot be transplanted to another person | - |
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homeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homoeopath |
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homeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homoeopathy |
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homoeopath | (noun) a practitioner of homeopathy | Synonyms: homeopath |
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homoeopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated | Synonyms: homeopathy |
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hydropathy | (noun) the internal and external use of water in the treatment of disease | Synonyms: hydrotherapy |
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idiopathy | (noun) any disease arising from internal dysfunctions of unknown cause | Synonyms: idiopathic disease, idiopathic disorder |
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immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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(noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
(noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
incompatibility | (noun) the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination | - |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
(noun) (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) | - |
inculpation | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, incrimination |
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inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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jupati | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati palm, jupaty, Raffia taedigera |
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jupaty | (noun) a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes | Synonyms: jupati, jupati palm, Raffia taedigera |
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lymphadenopathy | (noun) chronic abnormal enlargement of the lymph nodes (usually associated with disease) | - |
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mastopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mazopathy |
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mazopathy | (noun) any pathology of the breast | Synonyms: mastopathy |
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megalohepatia | (noun) abnormal enlargement of the liver | Synonyms: hepatomegaly |
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mononeuropathy | (noun) any neuropathy of a single nerve trunk | - |
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myocardiopathy | (noun) a disorder (usually of unknown origin) of the heart muscle (myocardium) | Synonyms: cardiomyopathy |
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myopathy | (noun) any pathology of the muscles that is not attributable to nerve dysfunction | - |
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naprapath | (noun) a therapist who practices naprapathy | - |
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naprapathy | (noun) a drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues | - |
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naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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naupathia | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water | Synonyms: mal de mer, seasickness |
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nephropathy | (noun) a disease affecting the kidneys | Synonyms: kidney disease, nephrosis, renal disorder |
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neuropathy | (noun) any pathology of the peripheral nerves | - |
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nonparticipation | (noun) withdrawing from the activities of a group | Synonyms: non-engagement, non-involvement |
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obstipation | (noun) severe constipation resulting from an obstruction in the intestines | - |
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occupation | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: business, job, line, line of work |
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(noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupancy |
(noun) the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power | Synonyms: military control |
(noun) any activity that occupies a person's attention | - |
(noun) the period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied | - |
osteopath | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopathist |
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osteopathist | (noun) a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | Synonyms: osteopath |
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osteopathy | (noun) therapy based on the assumption that restoring health is best accomplished by manipulating the skeleton and muscles | - |
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outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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palaeopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: paleopathology |
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paleopathology | (noun) the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence) | Synonyms: palaeopathology |
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palpation | (noun) a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | Synonyms: tactual exploration |
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parasympathetic | (noun) originates in the brain stem and lower part of the spinal cord; opposes physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system: stimulates digestive secretions; slows the heart; constricts the pupils; dilates blood vessels | Synonyms: parasympathetic nervous system |
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participation | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: engagement, involution, involvement |
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(noun) the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) | Synonyms: involvement |
pat | (noun) a light touch or stroke | Synonyms: dab, tap |
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(noun) the sound made by a gentle blow | Synonyms: rap, tap |
pataca | (noun) the basic unit of money in Macao | - |
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