| accustom | (verb) make psychologically or physically used (to something) | Synonyms: habituate |
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| accustomed | (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: customary, habitual, wonted |
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| actomyosin | (noun) a protein complex in muscle fibers; composed of myosin and actin; shortens when stimulated and causes muscle contractions | - |
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| adenoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the adenoids; commonly performed along with tonsillectomy | - |
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| adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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| ambystomid | (noun) small to moderate-sized terrestrial or semiaquatic New World salamander | Synonyms: ambystomid salamander |
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| amygdalotomy | (noun) psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence) | - |
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| anastomose | (verb) cause to join or open into each other by anastomosis | Synonyms: inosculate |
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| (verb) come together or open into each other | Synonyms: inosculate |
| anastomosis | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: inosculation |
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| anastomotic | (adjective) of or relating to or exhibiting anastomosis | - |
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| anatomic | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomical |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomical |
| anatomical | (adjective) of or relating to the structure of the body | Synonyms: anatomic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the branch of morphology that studies the structure of organisms | Synonyms: anatomic |
| (noun) an expression that relates to anatomy | Synonyms: anatomical reference |
| anatomically | (adverb) with respect to anatomy | - |
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| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| anatomist | (noun) an expert in anatomy | - |
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| anatomize | (verb) analyze down to the smallest detail | - |
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| (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomise |
| anatomy | (noun) a detailed analysis | - |
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| (noun) alternative names for the body of a human being | Synonyms: bod, build, chassis, figure, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma |
| (noun) the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals | Synonyms: general anatomy |
| appendectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendicectomy |
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| appendicectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the vermiform appendix | Synonyms: appendectomy |
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| astomatal | (adjective) lacking a stoma or stomata | - |
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| astomatous | (adjective) having no mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: mouthless |
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| asymptomatic | (adjective) having no symptoms of illness or disease | Synonyms: symptomless |
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| atom | (noun) (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element | - |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
| atomic | (adjective) (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy | Synonyms: nuclear |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or comprising atoms | - |
| (adjective) immeasurably small | - |
| atomisation | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomization, fragmentation |
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| (noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomization |
| atomise | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomize |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomize, nuke, zap |
| (verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomize |
| atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| atomism | (noun) (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles | Synonyms: atomic theory, atomist theory, atomistic theory |
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| (noun) (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association | - |
| atomistic | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistical |
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| atomistical | (adjective) divided into separate and often disparate elements | Synonyms: atomistic |
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| atomization | (noun) separating something into fine particles | Synonyms: atomisation, fragmentation |
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| (noun) annihilation by reducing something to atoms | Synonyms: atomisation |
| atomize | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomise |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomise, nuke, zap |
| (verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomise |
| atomizer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| automaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, car maker, car manufacturer, carmaker |
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| automat | (noun) a cafeteria where food is served from machines | - |
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| (noun) a vending machine from which you can get food | - |
| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| automated | (adjective) operated by automation | Synonyms: machine-controlled, machine-driven |
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| automatic | (adjective) operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control | - |
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| (adjective) without volition or conscious control | Synonyms: reflex, reflexive |
| (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatonlike, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
| (noun) self-loading rifle capable of automatic fire | Synonyms: automatic rifle, machine rifle |
| (noun) a pistol that will keep firing until the ammunition is gone or the trigger is released | Synonyms: automatic pistol |
| automatically | (adverb) in a reflex manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism | Synonyms: mechanically |
| automation | (noun) the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware | Synonyms: mechanisation, mechanization |
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| (noun) equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation | - |
| (noun) the condition of being automatically operated or controlled | - |
| automatise | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatize |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatize |
| automatism | (noun) any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy) | - |
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| automatize | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automate, automatise |
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| (verb) turn into an automaton | Synonyms: automatise |
| automaton | (noun) a mechanism that can move automatically | Synonyms: golem, robot |
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| (noun) a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control | - |
| (noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way | Synonyms: zombi, zombie |
| automatonlike | (adjective) resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine | Synonyms: automatic, machinelike, robotic, robotlike |
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| automobile | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, car, machine, motorcar |
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| (verb) travel in an automobile | - |
| automobilist | (noun) someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile | Synonyms: motorist |
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| automotive | (adjective) of or relating to motor vehicles | - |
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| (adjective) containing within itself the means of propulsion or movement | Synonyms: self-propelled, self-propelling |
| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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| autotomic | (adjective) of or relating to autotomy | - |
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| autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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| autotomize | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomise |
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| autotomy | (noun) spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack | - |
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| balletomane | (noun) a ballet enthusiast | - |
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| balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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| bellbottom | (adjective) (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom | Synonyms: bell-bottom, bell-bottomed |
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| blastocytoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blastoma | (noun) a tumor composed of immature undifferentiated cells | Synonyms: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma |
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| blastomere | (noun) any cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg | - |
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| blastomeric | (adjective) of or relating to a blastomere | - |
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| blastomycete | (noun) any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; cause disease in humans and other animals | - |
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| blastomycosis | (noun) any of several infections of the skin or mucous membrane caused by Blastomyces | - |
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| blastomycotic | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of blastomycosis | - |
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| bottom | (adjective) situated at the bottom or lowest position | - |
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| (adjective) the lowest rank | - |
| (noun) a cargo ship | Synonyms: freighter, merchant ship, merchantman |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| (noun) the lower side of anything | Synonyms: underside, undersurface |
| (noun) the lowest part of anything | - |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bed |
| (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottomland |
| (noun) the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat | Synonyms: bottom of the inning |
| (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: fathom, penetrate |
| (verb) strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom | - |
| (verb) provide with a bottom or a seat | - |
| bottomed | (adjective) having a bottom of a specified character | - |
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| bottomland | (noun) low-lying alluvial land near a river | Synonyms: bottom |
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| bottomless | (adjective) having no bottom | - |
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| (adjective) extremely deep | - |
| (adjective) unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness | - |
| (adjective) having no apparent limits or bounds | - |
| bottomlessness | (noun) the property of being very deep; without limit | - |
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| bottommost | (adjective) farthest down | Synonyms: lowermost, nethermost |
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| callosectomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosotomy |
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| callosotomy | (noun) severing the corpus callosum so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted (in cases of severe intractable epilepsy) | Synonyms: callosectomy |
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| catostomid | (noun) a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae | - |
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| cephalhematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalohematoma |
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| cephalohematoma | (noun) a collection of blood under the scalp of a newborn; caused by pressure during birth | Synonyms: cephalhematoma |
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| cholecystectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain) | - |
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| cholelithotomy | (noun) removal of gallstone through an incision in the gallbladder | - |
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| chrestomathy | (noun) a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language | - |
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| chromoblastomycosis | (noun) a fungal infection characterized by itchy warty nodules on the skin | - |
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| clitoridectomy | (noun) excision of the clitoris | Synonyms: female circumcision |
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| colostomy | (noun) a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus | - |
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| craniotomy | (noun) a surgical opening through the skull | - |
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| cryptomonad | (noun) common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms | Synonyms: cryptophyte |
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| custom | (adjective) made according to the specifications of an individual | Synonyms: custom-made |
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| (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: usage, usance |
| (noun) habitual patronage | - |
| (noun) a specific practice of long standing | Synonyms: tradition |
| (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: customs, customs duty, impost |
| customarily | (adverb) by custom; according to common practice | - |
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| customariness | (noun) The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage. | - |
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| customary | (adjective) in accordance with convention or custom | - |
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| (adjective) commonly used or practiced; usual | Synonyms: accustomed, habitual, wonted |
| customer | (noun) someone who pays for goods or services | Synonyms: client |
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| customhouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customshouse |
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| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| customize | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customise |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customise, tailor-make |
| customs | (noun) money collected under a tariff | Synonyms: custom, customs duty, impost |
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| customshouse | (noun) a government building where customs are collected and where ships are cleared to enter or leave the country | Synonyms: customhouse |
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| cyclostome | (noun) primitive aquatic vertebrate | - |
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| cytomegalic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by greatly enlarged cells | - |
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| cytomegalovirus | (noun) any of a group of herpes viruses that enlarge epithelial cells and can cause birth defects; can affect humans with impaired immunological systems | Synonyms: CMV |
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| cytomembrane | (noun) a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell | Synonyms: cell membrane, plasma membrane |
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| cytophotometer | (noun) a photometer that can be used to locate and identify chemical compounds in a cell by measuring the intensity of the light that passes through stained sections of the cytoplasm | - |
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| cytophotometric | (adjective) of or relating to the study of cells by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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| cytophotometrically | (adverb) by cytophotometric means | - |
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| cytophotometry | (noun) the study of chemical compounds inside a cell by means of a cytophotometer | - |
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