Search the Dictionary

Idiopathic; independent of other diseases. Essential character (Biol.), the prominent characteristics which serve to distinguish one genus, species, etc., from another. -- Essential disease, Essential fever (Med.), one that is not dependent on another. -- Essential oils (Chem.), a class of volatile oils, extracted fr…

To become pale through disease or absence of light.

Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. Dunglison.

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. [R.] Shak. He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil. Addison.

To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease. Broughman.

A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action.

Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison.

ng story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes (Med.), those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

pertaining to, or characterized by, exophthalmia. Exophthalmic golter. Same as Rasedow's disease.

A knot formed upon or in the wood of trees by disease.

The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

etc. See under Breach, Confession, etc. -- Faith cure, a method or practice of treating diseases by prayer and the exercise of faith in God. -- In good faith, with perfect sincerity.

Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.

A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." Harvey.