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odily condition or constitution, esp. a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease, or class of diseases.

ng to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease.

To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or…

A physician who applies the rules of dietetics to the cure of diseases. Dunglison.

Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.

h the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

s; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.

aller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. Not diminish, but rather increase, the debt. Barrow.

ing diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation or increase.

To dismiss, let go, or release. [Obs.]

A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Excessive thirst produced by disease.

A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church; a catalogue of saints.

To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.

To release from individual ownership or possession. Milton.

To relieve one's self of a burden; to ease the mind. Milton.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.

t the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school Above a twelvemonth. Shak. Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these par…

or between certain values of the variable does not vary continuously as the variable increases. The discontinuity may, for example, consist of an abrupt change in the value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.