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prep.
Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
n.
A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.
n.
The impulse of a body; which causes sound.
a.
Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and matting together; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.
v. t.
To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
a.
Pertaining to, or designating, certain days allowed to the pretor for hearing causes, when be might speak the three characteristic words of his office, do, dico, addico. They were called dies fasti.
n.
Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.
a.
Causing dilation or relaxation of the blood vessels; as, the vasodilator nerves, stimulation of which causes dilation of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vaso-inhibitory, and vasohypotonic nerves, since their stimulation causes relaxation and rest.
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A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.
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Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
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That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight.
n.
The privilege formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
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A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.
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A stroke, or catch, by which a wrestler causes his antagonist to lose footing.
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Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.
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The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
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A substance which causes constriction of the blood vessels. Such substances are used in medicine to raise blood pressure.
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A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism.
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The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
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