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Change for the worse; deterioration; morbid perversion.

drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.

Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.

A sweating; a profuse or morbid sweating, often succeeded by an eruption of small pimples.

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

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

A morbid an uncontrollable craving (often periodic) for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.

Serving to disperse morbid matter; discussive; as, a discutient application. -- n.

The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.

A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle. They heighten distempers to diseases. Suckling.

Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.

An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison.