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noun
- A curve.
- There's a sharp in the road ahead.
- (nautical) Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.<!-- or the end of a line into some other object; (the latter are called hitch)
- Note: In naval parlance, a knot involves splicing the strands of a rope.-->
- (context, in plural, medicine, diving) (the bends) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.
- (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinary, ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
verb (bends, bending, bent)
- (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- If you the pipe too far, it will break.
- Don"t your knees.
- (context, transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- Bend the sail to the yard.
- (context, transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- You should the G sligthly sharp in the next measure.
- (context, intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
- (intransitive) To become curved.
- Look at the trees bending in the wind.
- To bow properly, at the waist.
- (intransitive) To change direction.
- The road bends to the right
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adjective
- kind, Kind; gentle; mild.
- (medicine) Not pose, posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
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adjective
- kind; gracious; favorable.
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noun (uncountable)
- (pathology) an ailment caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1)
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noun - (medicine) a chronic disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of beryllium compounds
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adjective
- Suffering from real or supposed liver disorder, thus making one ill-natured.
- Of or pertaining to something containing or consisting of bile.
- irritable, Irritable or bad tempered: irascible.
- The students had learned not to ask questions of the bilious professor.
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| birthmark |
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noun (birthmarks)
- A mark on the skin formed before birth.
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| blackhead |
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noun
- (medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesey keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
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noun - (medicine) the chronic disease of the lungs, pneumoconiosis, caused by the long-term inhalation of coal dust
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noun
- (zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.
- (anatomy) Specifically, the urinary bladder.
- (botany) A hollow, inflatable organ of a plant.
- The inflatable bag inside various balls used in sports, such as footballs and rugby balls.
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verb (bleeds, bleeding, bled)
- (intransitive) Of an animal, to lose blood through an injured blood vessel.
- To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.
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noun
- The isolation of something, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- The ships or other forces used to effect the blockade.
verb (blockades, blockading, blockaded)
- (transitive) To create a blockade against.
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| blood poisoning |
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noun
- (pathology) The presence in the bloodstream of microorganisms or their toxins in sufficient quantity to cause serious illness.
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| bloodshot |
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adjective
- (context, of the eyes) reddened and inflamed because of congested blood vessels
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| blotch |
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noun - An uneven patch of color or discoloration.
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| boil |
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noun
- A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
- The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
- Add the noodles when the water comes to the .
- The collective noun for a group of hawks.
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| botulism |
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noun
- (pathology) A rare but serious medical condition caused by ingesting the nerve toxin botulin, that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The bacteria is anaerobic and so grows only in the absence of oxygen, such as in canned foods. Contaminated cans bulge from increased pressure. While modern industrial canning rarely allows botulism to occur it was at one time a significant danger and can still pose a threat in home canned products.
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noun
- (often used in plural) The border of a territory, which one must cross in order to enter or leave the territory.
- I reached the northern bound of my property, took a deep breath, and walked on.
- Somewhere within these bounds you may find a buried treasure.
- (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values
verb
- (past of, bind)
- I the splint to my leg.
- I had the splint with duct tape.
adjective
- (obsolete) ready, Ready, prepared.
- Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
- Is that message bound for me?
- Which way are you bound?
- The leaking fuel tank was bound to explode sooner or later.
- Constrained by something, or constrained to something
- He was bound to his chair.
- Because of his oath, he was bound to follow the king's command.
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noun - A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture. For humans this deformity is formally called genu varum.
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| brachialgia |
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noun
- (medicine) A medical term that literally means "pain in the arm".
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| bradycardia |
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noun
- The condition of having a slow heartbeat, defined as under 60 beats per minute for an adult.
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| breakbone fever |
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noun
- (pathology) Dengue fever.
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| breakdown |
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noun
- a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
- We saw a by the side of the road.
- a lapse of mental stability
- After so much stress, he simply suffered a and gave up.
- further detail or categorization
- ''Looking at the of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- (Chemistry:) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
- a musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre
- synonym: degradation
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noun
- any of several diseases of the kidney characterized by inflammation, and the presence of albumin in the urine; nephritis
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| bromidrosis |
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noun
- (medicine) Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration. Also called osmidrosis.
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| bronchitis |
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noun
- An inflammation of the bronchus, bronchi of the lungs, that causes the cilia of the bronchial epithelial cells to stop functioning.
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| bruise |
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noun
- (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillary, capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
- A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
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| bubo |
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noun
- (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis.
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adjective (notcomp)
- of or pertaining to buboes
- 1994: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/prevguid/m0033015/m0033015.asp International Notes Human Plague -- India, 1994 - "In particular, bubonic plague is characterized by painful swelling of lymph nodes (buboes) in the inguinal, axillary, or cervical regions."
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noun
- (disease) A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes.
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| bulimia |
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noun
- the chronic eating disorder bulimia nervosa
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| bulla |
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noun (bullae)
- (medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion.
- (context, Archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typ. with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
- In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
- Later, handwrited document from the papal chancellery.
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| bunion |
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noun
- (pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
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