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A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

sembling, a corpse, or the changes produced by death; cadaverous; as, cadaveric rigidity. Dunglison. Cadaveric alkaloid, an alkaloid generated by the processes of decomposition in dead animal bodies, and thought by some to be the cause of the poisonous effects produced by the bodies. See Ptomaine.

Hardenes; indurated. "A callous hand." Goldsmith. "A callous ulcer." Dunglison.

to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.

A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer. Dunglison.

ation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocardris and Pericarditis. Dunglison.

Expelling wind from the body; warning; antispasmodic. "Carmenative hot seeds." Dunglison.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

edicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc. Dunglison.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc. Ure. Dunglison.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

To operate on with a catheter. Dunglison.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

lond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix. Dunglison.

Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.] The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. Byron.