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Proceeding from disease; morbid; unhealthy. Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants. Ray.

A morbid condition produced by the excessive or prolonged use of morphine.

A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Ne…

A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of tobacco.

Morbid dread of disease.

Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.

A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

A suffix used in medical terms to denote a morbid condition of some part, usually some kind of tumor; as in fibroma, glaucoma.

Specifically, a morbid condition in which respiration can be performed only in an erect posture; by extension, any difficulty of breathing.

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues. Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to the return of the blood from the affected part. -- Passive iron (Chem…

Morbid; corrupt; as, peccant humors. Bacon.

voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.

aining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.

To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.

A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.…

A morbid condition in which pus is discharged in the urine.