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nued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.

he act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

med to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.

Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease, in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place of those he wishes to employ. Quian.

taining a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

Resembling or containing amyl; starchlike. Amyloid degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation. [Obs.]

or absence of feeling or sensation; a state of general or local insensibility produced by disease or by the inhalation or application of an anæsthetic.

Restorative; giving strength after disease. -- n.

A disease of the roots of turnips, etc.; -- called also fingers and toes.

oduce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.