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Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.

Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.

Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanitic skin.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture of the people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in library cataloguing.

Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power; evincing despotism; tyrannical; arbitrary. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Des*pot"ic*al*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

Relating to the correcting or straightening out of something; corrective.

Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

Embryonic.

Pertaining to endosmose; of the nature endosmose; osmotic. Carpenter.

Pertaining to the interior of the ear.

Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

The upper and outer element of periotic bone, -- in man forming a part of the temporal bone.

Of or pertaining to an epizoön.

An epizoötic disease; a murrain; an epidemic influenza among horses.

Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ergot; as, ergotic acid.