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One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar. Whose false foundation waves have swept away. Spenser.

A genus of carnivorous mammals, including the domestic cat, the lion, tiger, panther, and similar animals.

A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.

A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora, Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted to the Carnivora.

sus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

A burning; great heat; inflammation. [Obs.] Lust causeth a flagrancy in the eyes. Bacon.

The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

ther transcendental functions are the exponential functions, the elliptic functions, the gamma functions, the theta functions, etc. -- One-valued function, a quantity that has one, and only one, value for each value of the variable. -- Transcendental functions, a quantity whose connection with the variable cannot be…

A superficial, inflammatory tumor, suppurating with a central core; a boil.

ebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

Milk-carrying; lactiferous; -- applied to the ducts of mammary glands.

A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.

ric symptoms; -- a name applied to certain forms of typhoid fever; also, to catarrhal inflammation of the stomach attended with fever. -- Gastric juice (Physiol.), a thin, watery fluid, with an acid reaction, secreted by a peculiar set of glands contained in the mucous membrane of the stomach. It consists mainly of di…

Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Inflammation of the lining membrane of the stomach and the intestines.