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Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]

Any aëriform body; a gas; as, oxygen was formerly called vital air. [Obs.]

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

erived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

A gaseous compound of hydrogen and nitrogen, NH3, with a pungent smell and taste: -- often called volatile alkali, and spirits of hartshorn.

or pertaining to ammonia, or possessing its properties; as, an ammoniac salt; ammoniacal gas. Ammoniacal engine, an engine in which the vapor of ammonia is used as the motive force. -- Sal ammoniac Etym: [L. sal ammoniacus], the salt usually called chloride of ammonium, and formerly muriate of ammonia.…

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder.

With a narrow mouth, as the shell of certain gastropods.

A primary division of gastropods, including those having spiral shells. The two sides of the body are unequally developed.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

Good against mephitic or deletplwious gases. -- n.

A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

itation, often with general indisposition and a distressing sense of oppression at the epigastrium. Dunglison.

A constellation south of Pegasus.

Of or pertaining to Aquitania, now called Gascony.