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called by this name. The spores form a highly inflammable powder. -- Club root (Bot.), a disease of cabbages, by which the roots become distorted and the heads spoiled. -- Club topsail (Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase it…

rm (Tænia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

cular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. -- To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] Cold, v. i.

ents suffering from cholera. It is considered by some as having a special relation to the disease; -- called also cholera bacillus. -- Comma butterfly (Zoöl.), an American butterfly (Grapta comma), having a white comma-shaped marking on the under side of the wings.

, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke.

Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

To impart; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor.

An ailment or disease of the body. One in a complaint of his bowels. Arbuthnot.

arice and luxury very often become one complicated principle of action. Addison. When the disease is complicated with other diseases. Arbuthnot.

ated; intricate or confused relation of parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

existing from birth. "Connate notions." South. A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.

of the vital powers of an individual, with refernce to ability to endure hardship, resist disease, etc.; as, a robust constitution. Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the oid world. Story.

an (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.

ption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact.

One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.

ommunicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.

ring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease. Each from each contract new strength and light. Pope. Such behavior we contract by having much conversed with persons of high statiSwift.