cardiac |
| adjective
- Pertaining to the heart.
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cardiology |
| noun
- (medicine) The study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.
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cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
| noun
- A first aid procedure for cardiac arrest involving compression of the chest wall alternating with artificial respiration.
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cast |
| noun
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The doctor put a on the boy"s broken arm.
- The collective group of people performing a play or production together.
- He"s in the of Oliver.
- The casting procedure.
- A small mass of earth excreted by a worm.
- An object made in a mould.
- The mould used to make cast objects; as, a plaster cast.
- A squint.
- visual, Visual appearance.
- Her features had a delicate to them.
(rfex, the ones without)
verb (casts, casting, cast, )
- To throw forcefully.
- He a stone at the dog.
- To throw something down or toss something aside.
- to away fear
- She the die.
- To throw a fishing line or net into the water.
- The fisherman the net into the sea.
- To assign a role in a play or performance.
- The director the part carefully.
- (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
- Make by pouring into a mould.
- (of animals) To lose the hair or fur of the coat, usually in spring.
- (context, of fabric) To twist or warp.
- (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail.
- (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- (context, accountancy) To add up a column of figures; cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
(rfex)
|
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catharsis |
| noun (pl=catharses)
- (context, drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy). Coined in this sense by Aristotle.
- Seeing the hero's helped her deal with the loss of her parents.
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
- (context, psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.
- (context, medicine) purge, Purging of the digestive system.
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CAT scan |
| abbreviation
- The common acronym for computed axial tomography scan.
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cauterize |
| verb (cauteriz, ing)
- To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
|
cautery |
| noun
- (medical) The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue
|
CBC |
| initialism
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company (Japan)
- Complete Blood Count
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cecity |
| noun - blindness
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cephalometry |
| noun
- The measurement of the skull, especially in order to study its growth and development
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checkup |
| noun - a routine visit to the doctor, dentist, etc. (physical checkup)
- The appointment was just for a checkup.
- a routine inspection
- I took my car in for an annual checkup.
verb to check up
- to check; investigate; examine
- I dropped by to check up on my friend.
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chemoprophylaxis |
| noun
- chemoprevention
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chemotherapy |
| noun
- (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
- (oncology) Most common usage: chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
|
childbirth |
| noun
- AThe fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
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chronotherapy |
| noun - An attempt to achieve to reset the circadian rhythm to achieve an earlier waking time by advancing bedtime later and later each day, around the clock, until the desired hour is reached.
|
Clear |
| noun (wikipedia, Clear (Scientology))
- (Scientology) An idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.
|
clinic |
| noun
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- A group practice of several physicians.
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
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clinician |
| noun
- A doctor working in a clinic or hospital.
- A medicine student working as an intern in a clinic or hospital during his clinical semesters.
|
code |
| noun
- A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
- You assigned the same "unique" to two intake-categories, causing a database error!
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- "The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code"." -Wharton
- Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (crypto) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts word, words or phrase, phrases into codeword, codewords.
- source code, Source code.
verb (codes, coding, coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (crypto) To encode.
- We should the messages we sent out on usenet.
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coil |
| noun
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- Common name for any intra-uterine contraceptive device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
verb
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
- A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
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coition |
| noun
- sexual intercourse
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coitus |
| noun
- The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman, requiring insertion of the penis into the vagina and culminating in ejaculation of semen.
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colloid |
| noun - (chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
- (meteorology) An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase (or ), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium). The dispersion medium may be a gas, a liquid, or a solid, and the dispersed phase may also be any of these, with the exception that one does not speak of a colloidal system of one gas in another. A system of liquid or solid particles colloidally dispersed in a gas is called an aerosol. A system of solid substances or water-insoluble liquids colloidally dispersed in liquid water is called a hydrosol.
adjective
- glue, Glue-like.
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colonoscope |
| noun
- a flexible fibreoptic endoscope used to examine the colon and obtain tissue samples
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colposcope |
| noun
- a form of endoscope used to examine the tissues of the vagina and cervix
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colposcopy |
| noun - (medicine) the examination of the tissues of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope
|
compress |
| noun
- A folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
- He held a cold over the sprain.
verb (compresses, compressing, compressed)
- To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- The force required to a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
- To condense or abridge.
- If you try to the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
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conceptus |
| noun
- The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy.
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condition |
| noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- The state of any object, referring to the amount of its wear.
verb
- To undergo the process of acclimation.
- "I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego."
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- "They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
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condom |
| noun
- A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, used as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STD's.
|
congenital |
| adjective
- (context, of a trait) Present since birth.
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contact |
| noun
- The act of touching physically.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- (colloquial) A contact lens.
- (electrical) a device designed for repetitive connections.
- Touch the to ground and read the number again.
- Someone with whom one is in communication.
- The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
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continent |
| noun
- A large contiguous landmass that is at least partially surrounded by water, together with any islands on its continental shelf
adjective
- exercising continence
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contraception |
| noun
- the use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity
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contraceptive |
| noun
- a means by which impregnating a woman can be prevented, especially an effective one
- Putting a pig's bladder over one's penis during intercourse is not a good .
|
contraindicate |
| verb (contraindicat, ing)
- (context, medicine) To make inadvisable; to warn against a specific medicine or treatment.
|
corpus |
| noun (plural: corpora or corpuses)
- the body
- (linguistics) a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.
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CPR |
| initialism - cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CardioPulmonary? Resuscitation
- Calibrated Peer Review
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cradle |
| noun
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillate, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- (context, figurative) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- a of crime
- the of liberty
- (context, figurative) Infancy, or very early life.
- from the to the grave
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone.
(rfex)
verb (cradl, ing)
- (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
- (transitive) To wrap protectively.
- cradling the injured man"s head in her arms
- (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
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critical |
| adjective
- Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture.
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- Extremely important
- It's critical that you deliver this on time.
- Relating to literary criticism and related kinds of criticism
- The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
- Likely to "runaway" if disturbed, i.e. opposite of stable.
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crown |
| noun
- A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
- A wreath or band for the head.
- Imperial or regal power.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The highest part a hill.
- The top part of a hat.
- The raised centre of a road.
- The highest part of an arch.
- Splendor, finish, culmination.
- achievement
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
- Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- (dentistry) A prothestic covering for a tooth.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
verb
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
- (context, gaming) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (context, board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- "Crown me!" I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
adjective
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- prince
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
- a fire
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cryonics |
| noun
- the cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitate , resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.
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cryopreservation |
| noun
- the preservation of biological tissue at cryogenic temperatures, typically at -80°C (dry ice temperature) or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen).
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cryoscopy |
| noun
- the measurement of the freezing point of a liquid using a cryoscope
- (chemistry) the estimation of the molecular weight of a compound by measuring its effect on the freezing point of a solvent
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cuff |
| noun
- The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
- The end of a pants leg, folded up.
verb - (transitive) To hit, as a reproach.
- (transitive) To apply handcuffs.
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cure |
| noun
- a method, device or medication that restores good health
- a solution to a problem
verb (cur, ing)
- to restore to good health
- to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
- to preserve
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Cynic |
| proper noun
- a member of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
adjective
- of or related to the Cynics.
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cystoscope |
| noun
- a form of endoscope used to examine the ureter and the bladder
|
cardiac |
| adjective
- Pertaining to the heart.
|
cardiology |
| noun
- (medicine) The study of the structure, function, and disorders of the heart.
|
cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
| noun
- A first aid procedure for cardiac arrest involving compression of the chest wall alternating with artificial respiration.
|
|
cast |
| noun
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The doctor put a on the boy"s broken arm.
- The collective group of people performing a play or production together.
- He"s in the of Oliver.
- The casting procedure.
- A small mass of earth excreted by a worm.
- An object made in a mould.
- The mould used to make cast objects; as, a plaster cast.
- A squint.
- visual, Visual appearance.
- Her features had a delicate to them.
(rfex, the ones without)
verb (casts, casting, cast, )
- To throw forcefully.
- He a stone at the dog.
- To throw something down or toss something aside.
- to away fear
- She the die.
- To throw a fishing line or net into the water.
- The fisherman the net into the sea.
- To assign a role in a play or performance.
- The director the part carefully.
- (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- Casting is generally an indication of bad design.
- Make by pouring into a mould.
- (of animals) To lose the hair or fur of the coat, usually in spring.
- (context, of fabric) To twist or warp.
- (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail.
- (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- (context, accountancy) To add up a column of figures; cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
(rfex)
|
|
catharsis |
| noun (pl=catharses)
- (context, drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy). Coined in this sense by Aristotle.
- Seeing the hero's helped her deal with the loss of her parents.
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
- (context, psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.
- (context, medicine) purge, Purging of the digestive system.
|
CAT scan |
| abbreviation
- The common acronym for computed axial tomography scan.
|
cauterize |
| verb (cauteriz, ing)
- To burn, sear, or freeze tissue using a hot iron, electric current or a caustic agent.
|
cautery |
| noun
- (medical) The process of using either extreme heat or extreme cold to either cut or seal body tissue
|
CBC |
| initialism
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company (Japan)
- Complete Blood Count
|
cecity |
| noun - blindness
|
cephalometry |
| noun
- The measurement of the skull, especially in order to study its growth and development
|
checkup |
| noun - a routine visit to the doctor, dentist, etc. (physical checkup)
- The appointment was just for a checkup.
- a routine inspection
- I took my car in for an annual checkup.
verb to check up
- to check; investigate; examine
- I dropped by to check up on my friend.
|
chemoprophylaxis |
| noun
- chemoprevention
|
chemotherapy |
| noun
- (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
- (oncology) Most common usage: chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
|
childbirth |
| noun
- AThe fact or action of giving birth to a child, as the culmination of pregnancy.
|
chronotherapy |
| noun - An attempt to achieve to reset the circadian rhythm to achieve an earlier waking time by advancing bedtime later and later each day, around the clock, until the desired hour is reached.
|
Clear |
| noun (wikipedia, Clear (Scientology))
- (Scientology) An idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.
|
clinic |
| noun
- A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
- A group practice of several physicians.
- A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
- A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
|
clinician |
| noun
- A doctor working in a clinic or hospital.
- A medicine student working as an intern in a clinic or hospital during his clinical semesters.
|
code |
| noun
- A very short abbreviation, often with little correlation to the item it represents
- You assigned the same "unique" to two intake-categories, causing a database error!
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- "The collection of laws made by the order of Justinian is sometimes called, by way of eminence, "The Code"." -Wharton
- Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (crypto) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts word, words or phrase, phrases into codeword, codewords.
- source code, Source code.
verb (codes, coding, coded)
- (computing) To write software programs.
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (crypto) To encode.
- We should the messages we sent out on usenet.
|
coil |
| noun
- Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
- Common name for any intra-uterine contraceptive device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped.
- (electrical) A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
verb
- To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
- A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
- To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
- The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
|
coition |
| noun
- sexual intercourse
|
coitus |
| noun
- The act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman, requiring insertion of the penis into the vagina and culminating in ejaculation of semen.
|
colloid |
| noun - (chemistry) A stable system of two phases, one of which is dispersed in the other in the form of very small droplets or particles.
- (meteorology) An intimate mixture of two substances one of which, called the dispersed phase (or ), is uniformly distributed in a finely divided state throughout the second substance, called the dispersion medium (or dispersing medium). The dispersion medium may be a gas, a liquid, or a solid, and the dispersed phase may also be any of these, with the exception that one does not speak of a colloidal system of one gas in another. A system of liquid or solid particles colloidally dispersed in a gas is called an aerosol. A system of solid substances or water-insoluble liquids colloidally dispersed in liquid water is called a hydrosol.
adjective
- glue, Glue-like.
|
colonoscope |
| noun
- a flexible fibreoptic endoscope used to examine the colon and obtain tissue samples
|
colposcope |
| noun
- a form of endoscope used to examine the tissues of the vagina and cervix
|
colposcopy |
| noun - (medicine) the examination of the tissues of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope
|
compress |
| noun
- A folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
- He held a cold over the sprain.
verb (compresses, compressing, compressed)
- To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
- The force required to a spring varies linearly with the displacement.
- To condense or abridge.
- If you try to the entire book into a three-sentence summary, you will lose a lot of information.
|
conceptus |
| noun
- The fetus or embryo, including all the surrounding tissues protecting and nourishing it during pregnancy.
|
condition |
| noun
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- The state of any object, referring to the amount of its wear.
verb
- To undergo the process of acclimation.
- "I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego."
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- "They were conditioning their shins in their karate class."
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
|
condom |
| noun
- A flexible sleeve made of latex or other impermeable material such as sheepskin, used as a contraceptive or as a way to prevent the spread of STD's.
|
congenital |
| adjective
- (context, of a trait) Present since birth.
|
contact |
| noun
- The act of touching physically.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- (colloquial) A contact lens.
- (electrical) a device designed for repetitive connections.
- Touch the to ground and read the number again.
- Someone with whom one is in communication.
- The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
|
continent |
| noun
- A large contiguous landmass that is at least partially surrounded by water, together with any islands on its continental shelf
adjective
- exercising continence
|
contraception |
| noun
- the use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity
|
contraceptive |
| noun
- a means by which impregnating a woman can be prevented, especially an effective one
- Putting a pig's bladder over one's penis during intercourse is not a good .
|
contraindicate |
| verb (contraindicat, ing)
- (context, medicine) To make inadvisable; to warn against a specific medicine or treatment.
|
corpus |
| noun (plural: corpora or corpuses)
- the body
- (linguistics) a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.
|
CPR |
| initialism - cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CardioPulmonary? Resuscitation
- Calibrated Peer Review
|
cradle |
| noun
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillate, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- (context, figurative) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- a of crime
- the of liberty
- (context, figurative) Infancy, or very early life.
- from the to the grave
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone.
(rfex)
verb (cradl, ing)
- (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
- (transitive) To wrap protectively.
- cradling the injured man"s head in her arms
- (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
|
critical |
| adjective
- Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
- Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture.
- Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes self-sustaining.
- Extremely important
- It's critical that you deliver this on time.
- Relating to literary criticism and related kinds of criticism
- The movie was a critical success, but bombed at the box-office.
- Likely to "runaway" if disturbed, i.e. opposite of stable.
|
crown |
| noun
- A reward of victory or a mark of honor.
- A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
- A representation of such a headdress, as in heraldry; it may even be that only the image exists, no physical crown, as in the case of the kingdom of Belgium; by analogy such crowns can be awarded to moral persons that don't even have a head, as the mural crown for cities in heraldry
- A wreath or band for the head.
- Imperial or regal power.
- The topmost part of the head.
- The highest part a hill.
- The top part of a hat.
- The raised centre of a road.
- The highest part of an arch.
- Splendor, finish, culmination.
- achievement
- Any currency (originally) issued by the crown (regal power) and often bearing a crown (headdress)
- Specifically, a former British coin worth five shillings.
- (botany) The part of a plant where the root and stem meet.
- (anatomy) The part of a tooth above the gums.
- (dentistry) A prothestic covering for a tooth.
- (nautical) A knot formed in the end of a rope by tucking in the strands to prevent them from unravelling
- (nautical) The part of an anchor where the arms and the shank meet
verb
- To place a crown on the head of.
- To formally declare (someone) a king or emperor.
- To declare (someone) a winner.
- (medicine) Of a baby, during the birthing process; for the surface of the baby's head to appear in the vaginal opening.
- The mother was in the second stage of labor and the fetus had just crowned, prompting a round of encouragement from the midwives.
- (context, gaming) To shoot an opponent in the back of the head with a shotgun in a first-person shooter video game.
- (context, board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
- "Crown me!" I said, as I moved my checker to the back row.
adjective
- Of, related to, or pertaining to a crown.
- prince
- Of, related to, pertaining to the top of a tree or trees.
- a fire
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cryonics |
| noun
- the cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitate , resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.
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cryopreservation |
| noun
- the preservation of biological tissue at cryogenic temperatures, typically at -80°C (dry ice temperature) or -196°C (the boiling point of liquid nitrogen).
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cryoscopy |
| noun
- the measurement of the freezing point of a liquid using a cryoscope
- (chemistry) the estimation of the molecular weight of a compound by measuring its effect on the freezing point of a solvent
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cuff |
| noun
- The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
- The end of a pants leg, folded up.
verb - (transitive) To hit, as a reproach.
- (transitive) To apply handcuffs.
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cure |
| noun
- a method, device or medication that restores good health
- a solution to a problem
verb (cur, ing)
- to restore to good health
- to relieve from a disease or its ill effects
- to preserve
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Cynic |
| proper noun
- a member of a sect of ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
adjective
- of or related to the Cynics.
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cystoscope |
| noun
- a form of endoscope used to examine the ureter and the bladder
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