abrachia | (noun) the condition of having no arms | - |
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abranchial | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchiate, abranchious, gill-less |
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abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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anorchia | (noun) absence of one of both testes | Synonyms: anorchidism, anorchism |
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archiannelid | (noun) small primitive marine worm lacking external segmentation and resembling polychaete larvae | - |
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batrachian | (adjective) relating to frogs and toads | Synonyms: anuran, salientian |
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(noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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brachial | (adjective) of or relating to an arm | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
(verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
brachiation | (noun) swinging by the arms from branch to branch | - |
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branchia | (noun) respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water | Synonyms: gill |
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branchial | (adjective) of or relating to gills (or to parts of the body derived from embryonic gills) | - |
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branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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bronchial | (adjective) relating to or associated with the bronchi | - |
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chiaroscuro | (noun) a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color | - |
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chiasm | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasma, decussation |
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chiasma | (noun) an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X | Synonyms: chiasm, decussation |
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chiasmal | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmatic, chiasmic |
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chiasmatic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmic |
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chiasmic | (adjective) of or relating to a chiasm | Synonyms: chiasmal, chiasmatic |
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chiasmus | (noun) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | - |
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dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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eparchial | (adjective) of or relating to an eparchy | - |
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escherichia | (noun) a genus of enteric bacteria | - |
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lochia | (noun) substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth | - |
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microbrachia | (noun) abnormally small arms | - |
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naumachia | (noun) a naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans | Synonyms: naumachy |
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neuropsychiatric | (adjective) of or relating to neuropsychiatry | - |
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neuropsychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system | - |
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opisthorchiasis | (noun) infestation with flukes obtained from eating raw fish; common in eastern Asia | - |
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ornithischian | (noun) herbivorous dinosaur with a pelvis like that of a bird | Synonyms: ornithischian dinosaur |
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parochial | (adjective) relating to or supported by or located in a parish | - |
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(adjective) narrowly restricted in outlook or scope | Synonyms: insular |
parochialism | (noun) a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish | - |
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parochially | (adverb) in a parochial manner | - |
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paronychia | (noun) infection in the tissues adjacent to a nail on a finger or toe | - |
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petechia | (noun) a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) | - |
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psychiatric | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatrical |
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psychiatrical | (adjective) relating to or used in or engaged in the practice of psychiatry | Synonyms: psychiatric |
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psychiatrist | (noun) a physician who specializes in psychiatry | Synonyms: head-shrinker, shrink |
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psychiatry | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | Synonyms: psychological medicine, psychopathology |
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saurischian | (noun) herbivorous or carnivorous dinosaur having a three-pronged pelvis like that of a crocodile | Synonyms: saurischian dinosaur |
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selachian | (noun) any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks, rays, skates | Synonyms: elasmobranch |
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synechia | (noun) adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery or as a complication of glaucoma or cataract; can lead to blindness | - |
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welwitschia | (noun) curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old | Synonyms: Welwitschia mirabilis |
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