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Disease of the intestines.

Caused by a morbifie virus implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis.

Of or pertaining to entophytes; as, an entophytic disease.

to prevail upon by prayer or solicitation; to persuade. It were a fruitless attempt to appease a power whom no prayers could entreat. Rogers.

t the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h . The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature…

, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

e refers to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usu. by technological development.

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

An epidemic disease.

mmon to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.

An epidemic disease. Dunglison.

The "falling sickness," so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles. Dunglison.

The watery eye; a disease in which the tears accumulate in the eye, and trickle over the cheek.

The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm. Dunglison.

Of the nature of a disease which attacks many animals at the same time; -- corresponding to epidemic diseases among men.

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

To root out; to destroy utterly; to extirpate; as, to eradicate diseases, or errors. This, although now an old an inveterate evil, might be eradicated by vigorous treatment. Southey.

Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

A diseased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.