| Abject | - | brought low in condition or status |
| Angiography | - | examination of the blood vessels using x-rays following the injection of a radiopaque substance |
| Arboreal | - | resembling a tree |
| Ascaris | - | nematode worms of the family ascarida, including the common parasite |
| Avulsion | - | the forcible tearing away of a body part by trauma or surgery |
| Barnacle | - | a marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that forms a hard shell and remains attached to surfaces |
| Bathyscaphe | - | a free-diving deep-sea vessel |
| Baubles | - | trinket |
| Beggar | - | to exceed the limits, resources, and capabilities of |
| Biopsy | - | the removal and examination of a sample of tissue from a living body for diagnosis purposes |
| Brachial plexus | - | network of nerves located in the neck and axilla |
| Broken Chromosomes | - | broken strands of DNA |
| Cataracts | - | opacity of the lens or capsule of the eye; causing impairment of vision or blindness |
| Caveat Emptor | - | the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for assessing the quality of a purchase |
| Cerebral Mainframe | - | the central processing portion of the brain |
| Conflagration | - | a large destructive fire |
| Cranial Vault | - | the arch of the skull |
| Cudgel | - | a short heavy stick; a club |
| Debauch | - | to corrupt morally |
| Debilitating | - | sapping strength or energy; enfeeblement |
| Dementia | - | deterioration of intellectual faculties |
| Dry Rot | - | a fungous disease that causes timber to become brittle and crumble into powder |
| Dural Mater | - | the tough fibrous membrane covering the brain and spinal cord and lining the inner surface of the skull |
| Dysfunctional Domicile | - | a home with abornormal or impaired functioning |
| Egressed | - | come or gone out |
| Emaciated | - | have been made or became extremely thin; especially as a result of starvation |
| Emetic | - | causing vomiting |
| Euphomism | - | substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive |
| Eviscerate | - | to remove the entrails of; disembowel |
| Excoriated | - | torn or worn the skin off of; chafe |
| Exoskeletons | - | a hard outer structure that provides protection or support for an organism |
| Expunge | - | to erase or strike out |
| Fervid | - | marked by great passion or zeal |
| Footfalls | - | footsteps |
| Forlorn | - | appearing sad or lonely because deserted or abandoned |
| Gaunt | - | thin and bony |
| Ghoul | - | one who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome |
| H2SO4 | - | sulfuric Acid |
| Habiliments | - | the special dress or garb associated with an occasion or office |
| Haggard | - | appearing worn and exhausted |
| Hemodialysis | - | a procedure for removing metabolic waste or toxic substances from the bloodstream by dialysis |
| Hypersthenic | - | great or excessive bodily strength; vigor |
| Impinging | - | colliding or striking |
| Incommensurate | - | not of the same size, quantity, or duration; inadequate, disproportionate |
| Infusion | - | to introduce into the body through a vein |
| Lacrimation | - | secretion of tears |
| Larcenist | - | theif |
| Laryngectomy | - | surgical removal of part or all of the larynx |
| Ludicrous | - | laughable or hilarious because of obvious absurdity |
| Maelstrom | - | a violent or turbulent situation |
| Manifold | - | many and varied; multiplied |
| Moribund | - | approaching death; about to die 2. on the verge of becoming obsolete |
| Musing | - | contemplation; meditation |
| Myriad | - | a very large, indefinite number |
| Nystagmus | - | a rapid, involuntary, oscillatory motion of the eyeball |
| Ocular Atrophy | - | a wasting or decrease in size of the eyes owing to disease, injury, or lack of use |
| Parameters | - | a limit or boundry |
| Perniciousness | - | tending to cause death or serious injury; "deadliness" |
| Perused | - | to read or examine with great care |
| Petulance | - | unreasonably irratable or ill-tempered |
| Prevaricator | - | one who strays from or evades the truth |
| Proficient | - | having or marked by an advance degree or competence |
| Proteus | - | any of various gram negative, rod-shaped bacteria of genus proteos |
| Proxy | - | an agent or substitute |
| Psyche | - | the spirit or soul |
| Quiescence | - | quiet, still, at rest; inactive |
| Recoil | - | to spring back, as upon firing |
| Rigors | - | shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill |
| Ruminating | - | thinking over and over; reflect on |
| Scuttled | - | to scrap; discard |
| Sinewy | - | strong; muscular |
| Somnabulism | - | sleepwalking |
| Spectrophobic | - | spectrum of fears |
| Stereotaxic | - | a method in nuerosurgery for locating points within the brain using an external frame of reference |
| Strabismus | - | a visual defect in which one eye cannot focus with the other because of imbalance of eye muscles |
| Subdural | - | located or occuring beneath the dural mater |
| Surcingle | - | a girth that binds a saddle, pack, or blanket to the body of a horse |
| Symbiotic | - | a relationship of mutual benefit or dependence |
| Theodicy | - | a vindication of God's goodness and justice in the face of the existance of evil. |
| Truncated | - | shortened |
| Tufted | - | grown close together (clumped) |
| Ungainly | - | lacking grace or ease of movement |
| Verbose | - | using or containing a great, usually excessive, number of words; wordy |
| Virulence | - | extremely infectious, malignant or poisonous b. capable of causing disease |
| Volition | - | the power of faculty of choosing |
| Wanes | - | to decrease gradually |
| Wormwood | - | any of several aromatic plants in the genu artemisia 2. something harsh or embittering |