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noun (plural narcolepsies)
- (pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations
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| narcosis |
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noun (narcoses)
- (pathology) unconsciousness, Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.
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| nausea |
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noun
- A feeling of physical unwellness, usually with the desire to vomit.
- Strong dislike or disgust.
- sea-sickness, Sea-sickness.
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| nauseate |
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verb (nauseat, ing)
- To cause nausea.
- To disgust.
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| nauseating |
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adjective
- causing disgust, revulsion or loathing
- causing nausea
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| nauseous |
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adjective
- Causing nausea; sickening or disgusting.
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| neoplasm |
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noun
- (context, pathology, oncology) An abnormal new growth of disorganized tissue in animals or plants.
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| nephritis |
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noun (plural nephritides or nephritises)
- Inflammation of the kidney.
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| nephropathy |
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noun (plural nephropathies)
- Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.
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| nephrosis |
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noun (plural nephroses)
- A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative lesions.
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| neuralgia |
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noun
- (context, pathology, neurology) An acute, severe, intermittent pain that radiates along a nerve.
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| neuritis |
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noun (neuritides)
- (context, neurology, pathology) inflammation, Inflammation of one or more nerves.
- Optic (or retrobulbar neuritis) is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
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| neuropathy |
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noun (plural neuropathies)
- (medicine) any disease of the nervous system
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| neurotic |
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noun - A neurotic person
adjective - (obsolete?) Affected with a neurosis
- (informal) Over anxious
- He is getting about time-keeping
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| nitrogen narcosis |
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noun
- a condition of disorientation, intoxication and stupor caused by increased levels of dissolved nitrogen in the blood; occurs in divers breathing air under pressure; the "rapture of the deep"
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| node |
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noun (plural nodes)
- A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
- (Astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respetively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are � and �.
- The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
- A hole in the gnomon of a dial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
- The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
- The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
- A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
- A swelling.
- (graphtheory) A vertex of a graph.
- (computing_theory) (context, computer networking) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network; a computer or other device attached to a network
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| nosebleed |
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noun
- A haemorrhage from the nose.
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