| abiotrophy | (noun) a loss of vitality and a degeneration of cells and tissues not due to any apparent injury | - |
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| adrenocorticotrophic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotropic |
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| adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| adrenocorticotropic | (adjective) stimulating or acting on the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: adrenocorticotrophic |
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| adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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| aeolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: eolotropic |
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| allotrope | (noun) a structurally different form of an element | - |
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| allotropic | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropical |
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| allotropical | (adjective) of or related to or exhibiting allotropism | Synonyms: allotropic |
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| allotropism | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropy |
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| allotropy | (noun) the phenomenon of an element existing in two or more physical forms | Synonyms: allotropism |
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| ametropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) faulty refraction of light rays in the eye as in astigmatism or myopia | - |
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| ametropic | (adjective) of or relating to an abnormal condition of the eye in which visual images are not in focus on the retina | - |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| amyotrophia | (noun) progressive wasting of muscle tissues | Synonyms: amyotrophy |
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| amyotrophy | (noun) progressive wasting of muscle tissues | Synonyms: amyotrophia |
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| anastrophe | (noun) the reversal of the normal order of words | Synonyms: inversion |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisometropic | (adjective) relating to a difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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| anisotropic | (adjective) not invariant with respect to direction | - |
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| anisotropically | (adverb) in an anisotropic manner | - |
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| anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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| antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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| antistrophic | (adjective) of or relating to an antistrophe | - |
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| apostrophe | (noun) address to an absent or imaginary person | - |
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| (noun) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | - |
| apostrophic | (adjective) of or characteristic of apostrophe | - |
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| apostrophise | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophize |
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| apostrophize | (verb) use an apostrophe | Synonyms: apostrophise |
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| apotropaic | (adjective) having the power to prevent evil or bad luck | - |
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| astrophysical | (adjective) of or concerned with astrophysics | - |
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| astrophysicist | (noun) an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| astrophysics | (noun) the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies | - |
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| atrophedema | (noun) recurrent large circumscribed areas of subcutaneous edema; onset is sudden and it disappears within 24 hours; seen mainly in young women, often as an allergic reaction to food or drugs | Synonyms: angioedema, giant hives, periodic edema, Quincke's edema |
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| atrophic | (adjective) relating to or characterized by atrophy | - |
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| atrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: diminished, wasted |
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| atrophy | (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: withering |
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| (noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: wasting, wasting away |
| (verb) undergo atrophy | - |
| atropine | (noun) a poisonous crystalline alkaloid extracted from the nightshade family; used as an antispasmodic and to dilate the eye pupil; also administered in large amounts as an antidote for organophosphate nerve agents or organophosphate insecticides | - |
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| autotroph | (noun) plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances | Synonyms: autophyte, autophytic plant, autotrophic organism |
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| autotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to organisms (as green plants) that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources by photosynthesis | Synonyms: autophytic |
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| boustrophedon | (noun) an ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally `as the ox ploughs' | - |
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| boustrophedonic | (adjective) of or relating to writing alternate lines in opposite directions | - |
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| caltrop | (noun) tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed | Synonyms: devil's weed, Tribulus terestris |
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| (noun) Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America | Synonyms: Centauria calcitrapa, star-thistle |
| (noun) a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits | Synonyms: water chestnut, water chestnut plant |
| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| catastrophe | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy |
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| (noun) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | Synonyms: cataclysm |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: disaster |
| catastrophic | (adjective) extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| catastrophically | (adverb) with unfortunate consequences | - |
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| chemoautotroph | (noun) An organism that depends on chemicals for its energy and principally on carbon dioxide for its carbon. | Synonyms: chemotrophic autotroph |
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| chondrodystrophy | (noun) an inherited skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism | Synonyms: achondroplasia, achondroplasty, osteosclerosis congenita |
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| claustrophobe | (noun) a person suffering from claustrophobia | - |
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| claustrophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space | - |
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| claustrophobic | (adjective) suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places | - |
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| (adjective) uncomfortably closed or hemmed in | - |
| corticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotropin |
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| corticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin |
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| diastrophism | (noun) the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust | - |
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| dystrophy | (noun) any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition | - |
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| (noun) any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles | Synonyms: muscular dystrophy |
| electrophoresis | (noun) the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode | Synonyms: cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis |
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| electrophoretic | (adjective) of or relating to electrophoresis | Synonyms: cataphoretic |
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| electrophorus | (noun) a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity | - |
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| electroplate | (noun) any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis | - |
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| (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
| electroplater | (noun) a plater who uses electrolysis | - |
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| electropositive | (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: positive, positively charged |
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| emmetropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | - |
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| emmetropic | (adjective) of or relating to the normal condition of the eye in which visual images are in clear focus on the retina | - |
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| entropy | (noun) (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work | Synonyms: randomness, S |
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| (noun) (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome | Synonyms: information, selective information |
| eolotropic | (adjective) having properties with different values along different axes | Synonyms: aeolotropic |
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| epistrophe | (noun) repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. | Synonyms: epiphora |
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| ergotropic | (adjective) of or relating to ergotropism | - |
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| ergotropism | (noun) an affinity for work | - |
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| esotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes turn inward toward the nose | Synonyms: convergent strabismus, cross-eye, crossed eye |
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| eutrophic | (adjective) (ecology) of a lake or other body of water rich in nutrients and subject to eutrophication | - |
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| eutrophication | (noun) excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life; the decomposition of the plants depletes the supply of oxygen, leading to the death of animal life | - |
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| exotropia | (noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward | Synonyms: divergent strabismus, walleye |
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| extropic | (adjective) of or relating to extropy | - |
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| extropy | (noun) the prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universe | - |
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| gastropod | (noun) a class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes | Synonyms: univalve |
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| geotropism | (noun) an orienting response to gravity | - |
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| gonadotrophic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotropic |
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| gonadotrophin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotropic hormone, gonadotropin |
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| gonadotropic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving gonadotropin | Synonyms: gonadotrophic |
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| gonadotropin | (noun) hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland and placenta; stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity | Synonyms: gonadotrophic hormone, gonadotrophin, gonadotropic hormone |
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| heliotrope | (noun) green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood | Synonyms: bloodstone |
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| heliotropism | (noun) an orienting response to the sun | - |
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| heterotroph | (noun) an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition | - |
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| heterotrophic | (adjective) requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment | - |
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| hypermetropia | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hypermetropic | (adjective) abnormal ability to focus of distant objects | Synonyms: hyperopic |
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| hypermetropy | (noun) abnormal condition in which vision for distant objects is better than for near objects | Synonyms: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hyperopia, longsightedness |
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| hypertrophied | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) excessively enlarged as a result of increased size in the constituent cells | Synonyms: enlarged |
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| hypertrophy | (noun) abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ | - |
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| (verb) undergo hypertrophy | - |
| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| isentropic | (adjective) with unchanging entropy; at constant entropy | - |
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| isometropia | (noun) equality of refractive power in the two eyes | - |
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| isotropic | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropous |
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| isotropically | (adverb) in an isotropic manner | - |
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| isotropous | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropic |
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| isotropy | (noun) (physics) the property of being isotropic; having the same value when measured in different directions | Synonyms: symmetry |
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| lipochondrodystrophy | (noun) hereditary disease (autosomal recessive) consisting of an error is mucopolysaccharide metabolism; characterized by severe abnormalities in development of skeletal cartilage and bone and mental retardation | Synonyms: dysostosis multiplex, gargoylism, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome |
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| lipotropic | (adjective) having an affinity for lipids | Synonyms: lipophilic |
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| luteotropin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, prolactin |
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