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Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

To repent; to displease; to disgust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak.

mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.

a supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the memb…

scope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

iece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

ection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.

to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

Cease; stop; stay. "Avast heaving." Totten.

To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. The national spirit again awoke. Freeman. Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 1 Cor. xv. 34.