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 |