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Expressing amusement; as, an amused look.

A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic] Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.

A prefix, or combining form, in numerous compounds, usually relating to seed or blood vessels, or to something contained in, or covered by, a vessel.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

That part of anatomy which treats of blood vessels and lymphatics.

A tumor composed chiefly of dilated blood vessels.

Any disorder of the vasomotor system; neurosis of a blood vessel. --An`gi*o*neu*rot"ic (#), a.

Disease of the vessels, esp. the blood vessels.

Dissection of the blood vessels and lymphatics of the body. Dunglison.

A tau cross with a loop at the top, used as an attribute or sacred emblem, symbolizing generation or enduring life. Called also crux ansata.

all intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

icine which opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

Before the flood, or Deluge, in Noah's time.

Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.

Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains variousantibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also results in the development of their specific antibodies.…

ometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.