| coronal | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, garland, lei, wreath |
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| coronary | (adjective) surrounding like a crown (especially of the blood vessels surrounding the heart) | - |
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| (noun) obstruction of blood flow in a coronary artery by a blood clot (thrombus) | Synonyms: coronary thrombosis |
| coronate | (verb) invest with regal power; enthrone | Synonyms: crown |
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| coronation | (noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch | Synonyms: enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization, investiture |
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| coronavirus | (noun) a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that caused a global pandemic in 2020 | Synonyms: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, corona, coronavirus disease 2019, COVID-19, novel coronavirus pneumonia, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan virus |
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| coroner | (noun) a public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes | Synonyms: medical examiner |
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| coronet | (noun) margin between the skin of the pastern and the horn of the hoof | - |
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| (noun) a small crown; usually indicates a high rank but below that of sovereign | - |
| coroneted | (adjective) belonging to the peerage | Synonyms: highborn, titled |
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| coronilla | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Coronilla having purple or pink or yellow flowers in long axillary heads or umbels | - |
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| coronion | (noun) the craniometric point at the tip of the coronoid process of the mandible | - |
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| corozo | (noun) any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts | Synonyms: corozo palm |
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| corp | (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corporation |
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| corporal | (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic |
| (noun) a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines | - |
| corporality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporeality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corporate | (adjective) of or belonging to a corporation | - |
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| (adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form | Synonyms: bodied, corporal, embodied, incarnate |
| (adjective) done by or characteristic of individuals acting together | Synonyms: collective |
| (adjective) organized and maintained as a legal corporation | Synonyms: incorporated |
| corporation | (noun) slang for a paunch | Synonyms: bay window, pot, potbelly, tummy |
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| (noun) a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state | Synonyms: corp |
| corporatism | (noun) control of a state or organization by large interest groups | - |
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| corporatist | (adjective) of or relating to corporatism | - |
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| (noun) a supporter of corporatism | - |
| corporeal | (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: material |
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| (adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit | Synonyms: bodily, corporal, somatic |
| corporeality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, materiality, physicalness |
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| corposant | (noun) an electrical discharge accompanied by ionization of surrounding atmosphere | Synonyms: corona, corona discharge, electric glow, Saint Elmo's fire, Saint Elmo's light, Saint Ulmo's fire, Saint Ulmo's light, St. Elmo's fire |
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| corps | (noun) an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support | Synonyms: army corps |
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| (noun) a body of people associated together | - |
| corpse | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, remains, stiff |
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| corpulence | (noun) the property of excessive fatness | Synonyms: adiposis, overweight, stoutness |
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| corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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| corpulent | (adjective) excessively fat | Synonyms: obese, rotund, weighty |
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| corpus | (noun) the main part of an organ or other bodily structure | - |
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| (noun) a collection of writings | - |
| (noun) capital as contrasted with the income derived from it | Synonyms: principal, principal sum |
| corpuscle | (noun) either of two types of cells (erythrocytes and leukocytes) and sometimes including platelets | Synonyms: blood cell, blood corpuscle |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, molecule, mote, particle, speck |
| corpuscular | (adjective) of or relating to corpuscles | - |
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| corrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off |
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| corral | (noun) a pen for cattle | Synonyms: cattle pen, cow pen |
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| (verb) enclose in a corral | - |
| (verb) arrange wagons so that they form a corral | - |
| (verb) gather and secure | - |
| corrasion | (noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
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| correct | (adjective) free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: right |
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| (adjective) correct in opinion or judgment | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) socially right or correct | Synonyms: right |
| (adjective) in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure | Synonyms: right |
| (verb) treat a defect | - |
| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: rectify, right |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, set |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, objurgate |
| (verb) fall in value | Synonyms: decline, slump |
| (verb) punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience | Synonyms: discipline, sort out |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: compensate, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| correctable | (adjective) capable of being corrected by additions | Synonyms: amendable |
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| (adjective) capable of being returned to the original condition; not necessarily permanent | - |
| corrected | (adjective) having something undesirable neutralized | - |
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| correction | (noun) the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake; setting right | Synonyms: rectification |
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| (noun) treatment of a specific defect | - |
| (noun) the act of disciplining | Synonyms: discipline |
| (noun) a drop in stock market activity or stock prices following a period of increases | - |
| (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastening, chastisement |
| (noun) something substituted for an error | - |
| (noun) a quantity that is added or subtracted in order to increase the accuracy of a scientific measure | Synonyms: fudge factor |
| correctional | (adjective) concerned with or providing correction | - |
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| corrections | (noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole | - |
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| (noun) the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders | Synonyms: department of corrections |
| correctitude | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: properness, propriety |
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| corrective | (adjective) tending or intended to correct or counteract or restore to a normal condition | - |
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| (adjective) designed to promote discipline | Synonyms: disciplinal, disciplinary |
| (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: restorative |
| correctly | (adverb) in an accurate manner | Synonyms: aright, right |
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| correctness | (noun) conformity to fact or truth | Synonyms: rightness |
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| (noun) the quality of conformity to social expectations | - |
| correlate | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlated, correlative |
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| (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlative |
| (verb) bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation | - |
| (verb) to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation | - |
| correlated | (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlative |
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| correlation | (noun) a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlation) to +1 (perfect positive correlation) | Synonyms: coefficient of correlation, correlation coefficient |
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| (noun) a statistical relation between two or more variables such that systematic changes in the value of one variable are accompanied by systematic changes in the other | Synonyms: correlational statistics |
| (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlativity |
| correlational | (adjective) relating to or employing correlation | - |
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| correlative | (adjective) expressing a reciprocal or complementary relation | - |
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| (adjective) mutually related | Synonyms: correlate, correlated |
| (noun) either of two or more related or complementary variables | Synonyms: correlate |
| correlativity | (noun) a reciprocal relation between two or more things | Synonyms: correlation |
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| correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
| correspondence | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: parallelism |
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| (noun) compatibility of observations | Synonyms: agreement |
| (noun) (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane | Synonyms: balance, symmetricalness, symmetry |
| (noun) communication by the exchange of letters | - |
| (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, proportionateness |
| correspondent | (adjective) similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar | Synonyms: analogous |
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| (noun) someone who communicates by means of letters | Synonyms: letter writer |
| (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: newswriter |
| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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| corrida | (noun) a Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators | Synonyms: bullfight |
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| corridor | (noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it | - |
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| corrie | (noun) a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake | Synonyms: cirque, cwm |
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| corrigenda | (noun) a list of printing errors in a book along with their corrections | - |
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| corrigendum | (noun) a printer's error; to be corrected | - |
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| corrigible | (adjective) capable of being corrected or set right | - |
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| corroborant | (adjective) used of a medicine that is strengthening | - |
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| corroborate | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, substantiate, support, sustain |
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| (verb) give evidence for | Synonyms: validate |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, support, underpin |
| corroboration | (noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, documentation |
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| corroborative | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corroboratory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| corrode | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: rust |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: eat, rust |
| corroded | (adjective) eaten away as by acid or oxidation | - |
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| corroding | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosion, erosion |
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| corrosion | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corroding, erosion |
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| (noun) a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action | - |
| corrosive | (adjective) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action | Synonyms: caustic, erosive, mordant, vitriolic |
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| (adjective) spitefully sarcastic | - |
| (noun) a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali) | - |
| corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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| corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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| corrugation | (noun) the act of shaping into parallel ridges and grooves | - |
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| (noun) a ridge on a corrugated surface | - |
| corrupt | (adjective) lacking in integrity | - |
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| (adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: crooked |
| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupted |
| (adjective) touched by rot or decay | Synonyms: tainted |
| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: spoil |
| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint |
| (verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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| (adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
| corruptedly | (adverb) in a corrupt manner | Synonyms: corruptly |
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| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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| corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
| (adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
| corruption | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: subversion |
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| (noun) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony) | - |
| (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruptness |
| (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
| (noun) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) | - |
| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness |
| corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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| corruptly | (adverb) in a corrupt manner | Synonyms: corruptedly |
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| corruptness | (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the state of being corrupt | - |
| corsage | (noun) an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present | Synonyms: bouquet, nosegay, posy |
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| corsair | (noun) a swift pirate ship (often operating with official sanction) | - |
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| (noun) a pirate along the Barbary Coast | Synonyms: Barbary pirate |
| corselet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corslet |
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| corset | (noun) a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | Synonyms: girdle, stays |
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| (verb) dress with a corset | - |
| corslet | (noun) a piece of body armor for the trunk; usually consists of a breastplate and back piece | Synonyms: corselet |
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| cortege | (noun) the group following and attending to some important person | Synonyms: entourage, retinue, suite |
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| (noun) a funeral procession | - |
| cortex | (noun) the tissue forming the outer layer of an organ or structure in plant or animal | - |
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| (noun) the layer of unmyelinated neurons (the grey matter) forming the cortex of the cerebrum | Synonyms: cerebral cortex, cerebral mantle, pallium |
| (noun) the tissue that surrounds the lens nucleus | Synonyms: lens cortex |
| cortical | (adjective) of or relating to a cortex | - |
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| cortically | (adverb) with respect to the cortex | - |
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| corticifugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoefferent, corticofugal |
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| corticipetal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticoafferent |
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| corticoafferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticipetal |
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| corticoefferent | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticofugal |
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| corticofugal | (adjective) of a nerve fiber passing outward from the cerebral cortex | Synonyms: corticifugal, corticoefferent |
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| corticoid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticosteroid |
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| corticosteroid | (noun) a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex or synthesized; administered as drugs they reduce swelling and decrease the body's immune response | Synonyms: adrenal cortical steroid, corticoid |
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| corticosterone | (noun) secreted by the adrenal cortex; involved in regulating water and electrolyte balance in the body | - |
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| 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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