| aesculapian | (adjective) of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art | Synonyms: medical |
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| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auscultation | (noun) listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) | - |
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| auscultatory | (adjective) of or relating to auscultation | - |
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| avascular | (adjective) without blood vessels | - |
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| bascule | (noun) a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) | - |
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| cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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| cerebrovascular | (adjective) of or relating to the brain and the blood vessels that supply it | - |
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| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| crepuscular | (adjective) like twilight; dim | - |
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| crepuscule | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight |
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| demasculinise | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinize, emasculate |
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| demasculinize | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, emasculate |
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| emasculate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, effeminate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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| (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| emasculated | (adjective) (of a male animal) having the testicles removed | Synonyms: cut, gelded |
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| emasculation | (noun) neutering a male animal by removing the testicles | Synonyms: castration |
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| (noun) loss of power and masculinity | - |
| inosculate | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: anastomose |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: anastomose |
| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| intramuscular | (adjective) within a muscle | - |
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| intramuscularly | (adverb) in an intramuscular way | - |
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| majuscular | (adjective) of the nature of a majuscule or written in majuscules | - |
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| majuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a style of writing characterized by somewhat rounded capital letters; 4th to 8th centuries | - |
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| (adjective) uppercase | Synonyms: capital, great |
| (noun) one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis | Synonyms: capital, capital letter, upper-case letter, uppercase |
| masculine | (adjective) associated with men and not with women | - |
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| (adjective) male (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an accented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to males or to objects classified as male | - |
| masculinisation | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinization, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinity | (noun) the properties characteristic of the male sex | Synonyms: maleness |
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| (noun) the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for men | - |
| masculinization | (noun) the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction) | Synonyms: masculinisation, virilisation, virilization |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| miniscule | (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscular | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscule |
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| minuscule | (adjective) of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries | Synonyms: minuscular |
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| (adjective) lowercase | Synonyms: little, small |
| (adjective) extremely small | Synonyms: miniscule |
| (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| muscular | (adjective) having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer | Synonyms: mesomorphic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or consisting of muscle | - |
| (adjective) having or suggesting great physical power or force | - |
| (adjective) (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful | Synonyms: brawny, hefty, powerful, sinewy |
| muscularity | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, brawniness, heftiness, muscle, sinew |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, vigor, vigour, vim |
| (noun) the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle | - |
| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| musculoskeletal | (adjective) relating to muscles and skeleton | - |
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| musculus | (noun) one of the contractile organs of the body | Synonyms: muscle |
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| neuromuscular | (adjective) affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue | - |
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| osculate | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, kiss, snog |
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| (verb) have at least three points in common with | - |
| (verb) be intermediate between two taxonomic groups | - |
| osculation | (noun) the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: buss, kiss |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent | - |
| osculator | (noun) someone who kisses | Synonyms: kisser |
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| scull | (noun) a racing shell that is propelled by sculls | - |
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| (noun) each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman | - |
| (noun) a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward | - |
| (verb) propel with sculls | - |
| sculler | (noun) someone who sculls (moves a long oar pivoted on the back of the boat to propel the boat forward) | - |
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| scullery | (noun) a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen; where kitchen utensils are cleaned and kept and other rough household jobs are done | - |
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| sculling | (noun) rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell | - |
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| scullion | (noun) a kitchen servant employed to do menial tasks (especially washing) | - |
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| sculpin | (noun) any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| sculpted | (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: graven, sculptured |
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| sculptor | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculpturer, statue maker |
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| sculptress | (noun) a woman sculptor | - |
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| sculptural | (adjective) relating to or consisting of sculpture | - |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptured, sculpturesque |
| sculpture | (noun) creating figures or designs in three dimensions | Synonyms: carving |
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| (noun) a three-dimensional work of plastic art | - |
| (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| sculptured | (adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: graven, sculpted |
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| (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculpturesque |
| sculpturer | (noun) an artist who creates sculptures | Synonyms: carver, sculptor, statue maker |
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| sculpturesque | (adjective) resembling sculpture | Synonyms: modeled, modelled, sculptural, sculptured |
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| transcultural | (adjective) extending through all human cultures | - |
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| vascular | (adjective) of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids | - |
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| vascularisation | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularization |
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| vascularise | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularize |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularize |
| vascularity | (noun) the property being vascular | - |
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| vascularization | (noun) the organic process whereby body tissue becomes vascular and develops capillaries | Synonyms: vascularisation |
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| vascularize | (verb) make vascular | Synonyms: vascularise |
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| (verb) become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids | Synonyms: vascularise |
| vasculitis | (noun) inflammation of a blood vessel | - |
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