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10,459 words match “TIC”

ANTIPATHETIC; ANTIPATHETICAL a.
Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller.
ANTIPERISTALTIC a.
Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube.
ANTIPERISTATIC a.
Pertaining to antiperistasis.
ANTIPHLOGISTIC a. 3 definitions
Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
ANTIPHRASTIC; ANTIPHRASTICAL a.
Pertaining to antiphrasis. -- An`ti*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.
ANTIPLASTIC a. 2 definitions
Diminishing plasticity.
ANTIPYRETIC a. 2 definitions
Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.
ANTIPYROTIC a. 2 definitions
Good against burns or pyrosis. -- n.
ANTIRACHITIC a.
Good against the rickets.
ANTISCOLETIC; ANTISCOLIC a.
Anthelmintic.
ANTISCORBUTIC a. 2 definitions
Counteracting scurvy. -- n.
ANTISCORBUTICAL a.
Antiscorbutic.
ANTISEPTIC n.
A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.
ANTISEPTIC; ANTISEPTICAL a.
preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.
ANTISEPTICALLY adv.
By means of antiseptics.
ANTISPASTIC a. 3 definitions
An antispastic agent.
ANTISPLENETIC a. 2 definitions
An antisplenetic medicine.
ANTISTRUMATIC a. 2 definitions
Antistrumous. -- n.
ANTISYPHILITIC a. 2 definitions
Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.
ANTITHETIC; ANTITHETICAL a.
Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
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