acrylamide | (noun) a white crystalline amide of propenoic acid can damage the nervous system and is carcinogenic in laboratory animals | - |
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bedlamite | (noun) an archaic term for a lunatic | - |
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calamine | (noun) a white mineral; a common ore of zinc | Synonyms: hemimorphite |
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calamint | (noun) perennial aromatic herbs growing in hedgerows or scrub or open woodlands from western Europe to central Asia and in North America | - |
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calamitous | (adjective) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin | Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful |
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calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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catecholamine | (noun) any of a group of chemicals including epinephrine and norepinephrine that are produced in the medulla of the adrenal gland | - |
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cobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cyanocobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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cyanocobalamin | (noun) a B vitamin that is used to treat pernicious anemia | Synonyms: antipernicious anemia factor, cobalamin, vitamin B12 |
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epithalamium | (noun) an ode honoring a bride and bridegroom | - |
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flaming | (adjective) passionate or quick-tempered | Synonyms: fiery |
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(adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, fucking |
(noun) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | Synonyms: fire, flame |
flamingo | (noun) large pink to scarlet web-footed wading bird with down-bent bill; inhabits brackish lakes | - |
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gallamine | (noun) neuromuscular blocking agent (trade name Flaxedil) used as a muscle relaxant in the administration of anesthesia | Synonyms: Flaxedil |
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hypothalamic | (adjective) of or relating to the hypothalamus | - |
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hypothalamically | (adverb) with respect to the hypothalamus | - |
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inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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lamia | (noun) (folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living | Synonyms: vampire |
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lamina | (noun) a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral) | - |
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laminal | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminar |
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laminar | (adjective) arranged in or consisting of laminae | Synonyms: laminal |
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laminate | (noun) a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers | - |
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(verb) cover with a thin sheet of non-fabric material | - |
(verb) press or beat (metals) into thin sheets | - |
(verb) split (wood) into thin sheets | - |
(verb) create laminate by bonding sheets of material with a bonding material | - |
lamination | (noun) bonding thin sheets together | - |
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(noun) a layered structure | - |
laminator | (noun) Any of a range of machines used for lamination. | Synonyms: laminating machine |
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(noun) a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates) | - |
laminectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae | - |
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laminitis | (noun) inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse | Synonyms: founder |
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lamivudine | (noun) a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor that is very effective in combination with zidovudine in treating AIDS and HIV | Synonyms: 3TC |
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melamine | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: cyanuramide |
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penicillamine | (noun) a drug (trade name Cuprimine) used to treat heavy metal poisoning and Wilson's disease and severe arthritis | Synonyms: Cuprimine |
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phentolamine | (noun) a virility drug (trade name Vasomax) to treat erectile dysfunction in men | Synonyms: Vasomax |
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phenylamine | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline, aniline oil |
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phenylpropanolamine | (noun) an adrenergic drug used in many preparations to relieve allergic reactions or respiratory infections | - |
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prolamine | (noun) a simple protein found in plants | - |
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prothalamion | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamium |
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prothalamium | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamion |
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pyrilamine | (noun) antihistamine used to treat rhinitis and pruritus | - |
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salami | (noun) highly seasoned fatty sausage of pork and beef usually dried | - |
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scopolamine | (noun) an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures | Synonyms: hyoscine |
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sulfanilamide | (noun) a white odorless crystalline sulfa drug; the parent compound of most of the sulfa drugs | - |
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thiodiphenylamine | (noun) a compound used primarily in veterinary medicine to rid farm animals of internal parasites | Synonyms: phenothiazine |
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