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lusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.

An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

tation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally oberved as a morbid phenomenon in man.

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

ree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta). -- Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

A morbid induration, as of a gland; stste of being scirrhous.

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.

n. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process, are known respectively as red, yellow, and white, softening.

The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

Healthy; not diseased; not being in a morbid state; -- said of body or mind; as, a sound body; a sound constitution; a sound understanding.

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

A morbid state of the lung produced by inflammation, in which its tissue resembles that of the spleen.

Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever. Sthenic theory. See Stimulism (a).

A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.