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A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

f or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

Treatment of disease by vapors or gases, as by inhalation.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

Separation by atmolysis.

To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.

The portion of air in any locality, or affected by a special physical or sanitary condition; as, the atmosphere of the room; a moist or noxious atmosphere.

Caused, or operated on, by the atmosphere; as, an atmospheric effect; an atmospheric engine.

unted thus for the origin and formation of all things. This philosophy was first broached by Leucippus, was developed by Democritus, and afterward improved by Epicurus, and hence is sometimes denominated the Epicurean philosophy. -- Atomic theory, or the Doctrine of definite proportions (Chem.), teaches that chemical…

fell, and blood atoned for blood. Pope. The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by any wise or popular measure. Junius.

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man…

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.

Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

o bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.