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A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

ncy in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

ustomary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts; the first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epo…

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

That of which the type pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

sing, anxiety; worrying; -- applied to things; as, anxious labor. The sweet of life, from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares. Milton.

A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

assion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

he surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is also applied to the larvæ of the ladybugs (Coccinella).

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

A disorder of speech in which words can be uttered but not intelligibly joined together.