| abortifacient | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: aborticide, abortion-inducing drug |
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| ancient | (noun) a person who lived in ancient times | - |
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| (noun) a very old person | Synonyms: antediluvian |
| aperient | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: cathartic, physic, purgative |
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| client | (noun) (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network | Synonyms: guest, node |
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| (noun) a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer | - |
| (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: customer |
| coefficient | (noun) a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic | - |
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| emollient | (noun) toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin | Synonyms: cream, ointment |
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| expedient | (noun) a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one | - |
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| gradient | (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal | Synonyms: slope |
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| (noun) a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension | - |
| ingredient | (noun) a component of a mixture or compound | - |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, element, factor |
| (noun) food that is a component of a mixture in cooking | Synonyms: fixings |
| inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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| micronutrient | (noun) a substance needed only in small amounts for normal body function (e.g., vitamins or minerals) | - |
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| nutrient | (noun) any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue | Synonyms: food |
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| (noun) any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis | - |
| orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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| outpatient | (noun) a patient who does not reside in the hospital where he is being treated | - |
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| patient | (noun) the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: affected role, patient role |
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| (noun) a person who requires medical care | - |
| percipient | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: beholder, observer, perceiver |
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| quotient | (noun) the number obtained by division | - |
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| (noun) the ratio of two quantities to be divided | - |
| recipient | (noun) the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause | Synonyms: recipient role |
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| (noun) a person who receives something | Synonyms: receiver |
| rubefacient | (noun) a medicine for external application that produces redness of the skin | - |
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| salient | (noun) (military) the part of the line of battle that projects closest to the enemy | - |
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| transient | (noun) (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load | - |
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| (noun) one who stays for only a short time | - |