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See Hydropathy.

Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

A hydrotic medicine.

Hydrotic.

A device for raising water by the direct action of steam; a pulsometer.

Turning or bending towards moisture, as roots.

A tendency towards moisture.

Excessive dicrotic; as, a hyperdicrotic pulse.

A hyperdicrotic condition.

Hyperdicrotic.

a communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

Exhibiting retarded dicrotism; as, a hypodicrotic pulse curve.

A figure in which the natural order of sense is reversed; hysterology; as, valet atque vivit, "he is well and lives."

The Cæsarean section. See under Cæsarean.

Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion.

Not rotatory; passing from one point to another by a movement other than rotation; -- said of the movement of parts of a liquid or yielding mass. Sir W. Thomson.

A peculiar albuminous body considered a normal constituent of milk.

Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.

A cutting through the walls of the abdomen, as in the Cæsarean section.