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A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.…

A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement of a gland. -- Ad`e*nom"a*tous, a.

Lewdness or unchastity of thought as well as act, as forbidden by the seventh commandment.

, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.] Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

Indisposition or morbid affection. Pope.

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

ation the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitis…

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

of the qualities of alkalies. -- Alkaline metals, potassium, sodium, cæsium, lithium, rubidium. -- Alkaline reaction, a reaction indicating alkalinity, as by the action on limits, turmeric, etc.

Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health. Burton.

uccession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal. And bid alternate passions fall and rise. Pope.

wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating ma…

Left-handed on both sides; clumsy; -- opposed to ambidexter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

A morbid or monstrous development, or change of form, or degeneration.

Anathematization. [Obs.] We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.