acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
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agrypnia | (noun) a vigil before certain feasts (as e.g. Easter) | - |
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apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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(noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
crispness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispiness |
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(noun) a pleasing firmness and freshness | - |
(noun) an expressive style that is direct and to the point | - |
dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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(noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
(noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
deipnosophist | (noun) someone skilled at informal chitchat | - |
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dyspnea | (noun) difficult or labored respiration | Synonyms: dyspnoea |
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dyspnoea | (noun) difficult or labored respiration | Synonyms: dyspnea |
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eupnea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnoea |
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eupnoea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnea |
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grapnel | (noun) a light anchor for small boats | Synonyms: grapnel anchor |
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(noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
hypercapnia | (noun) the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood | Synonyms: hypercarbia |
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hyperpnea | (noun) energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders | - |
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hypnagogue | (noun) an agent that induces drowsiness or sleep | - |
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hypnoanalysis | (noun) the use of hypnosis in conjunction with psychoanalysis | - |
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hypnogenesis | (noun) the induction of sleep or hypnosis | - |
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hypnopedia | (noun) teaching during sleep (as by using recordings to teach a foreign language to someone who is asleep) | Synonyms: sleep-learning |
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hypnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of falling asleep | - |
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hypnosis | (noun) a state that resembles sleep but that is induced by suggestion | - |
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hypnotherapy | (noun) the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy | - |
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hypnotic | (noun) a drug that induces sleep | Synonyms: soporific |
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hypnotiser | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotist, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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hypnotism | (noun) the act of inducing hypnosis | Synonyms: mesmerism, suggestion |
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hypnotist | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotizer, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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hypnotizer | (noun) a person who induces hypnosis | Synonyms: hypnotiser, hypnotist, mesmerist, mesmerizer |
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hypocapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: acapnia |
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hypopnea | (noun) slow or shallow breathing | - |
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limpness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, flaccidity |
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orthopnea | (noun) form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris | - |
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pleuropneumonia | (noun) pleurisy and pneumonia | - |
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plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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pneumatics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases | - |
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pneumatophore | (noun) an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant | - |
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pneumococcus | (noun) bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans | Synonyms: Diplococcus pneumoniae |
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pneumoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumonoconiosis |
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pneumocytosis | (noun) pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims) | Synonyms: interstitial plasma cell pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, pneumocystis pneumonia |
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pneumoencephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: encephalogram |
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pneumogastric | (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
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pneumonectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer) | - |
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pneumonia | (noun) respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants | - |
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pneumonitis | (noun) inflammation of the lungs; caused by a virus or an allergic reaction | - |
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pneumonoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumoconiosis |
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pneumothorax | (noun) abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis) | - |
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sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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(noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
(noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
(noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
(noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
(noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
(noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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steepness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitousness |
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