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undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

sence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

Irregularity in disease, or in the functions.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

rometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0º Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris. Sir W. Thomson.

The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

An access of disease; a fit of sickness.

To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak.

mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

r was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of…

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidæ. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish

oscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination.