Tourniquet dictionary

Ever come across a word, phrase, or title in a Tourniquet song you don't understand? Well, here's the answer! Please let me know if there is any I missed!


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


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