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A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

iber. -- Nerve stretching (Med.), the operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed. Poor, weak, nervous creatures. Cheyne.

A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.

Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.

A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

peutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the "old thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymou…

s, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

n; rumor; report. "The noise goes." Shak. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood! T. Baker. Soerates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages. Spectator.

A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

Not malignant, as a disease.

A description or classification of diseases.

A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

Morbid dread of disease.

Producing diseases. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.