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able of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity. -- Ap*pre"ci*a*bly, adv.

Not appreciable; too small to be perceived; incapable of being duly valued or estimated. Hallam.

Without dimensions; having no appreciable or noteworthy extent. Milton.

ral. Functional disease (Med.), a disease of which the symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; the derangement of an organ arising from a cause, often unknown, external to itself opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.

action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier.

A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight. -- Pon"der*a*ble*ness, n.

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The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there.