(medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury.
amphitryon
atrophying
atrophying
verb
present participle of atrophy
biotherapy
biotherapy
noun
(medicine) Any of several unrelated therapies that use natural biological processes, especially those that use parts of the immune system.
(medicine) The use of living organisms (such as maggots or leeches) in the control of disease or the healing of wounds.
bryophytic
bryophytic
adj
Of or pertaining to bryophytes, the green, seedless land plants that make up the division Bryophyta, including mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
copyrights
copyrights
noun
plural of copyright
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of copyright
cryptolith
diastrophy
dystrophia
dystrophia
noun
dystrophy
dystrophic
dystrophic
adj
(of a spring, lake &c) Having brownish acidic waters due to humus
Affected with dystrophy
epistrophy
ericophyte
erythropia
heliotropy
heliotropy
noun
heliotropism
hippometry
hylotropic
hyperstoic
hypertonia
hypertonia
noun
(medicine) An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral palsy.
hypertonic
hypertonic
adj
(anatomy) Having a very high muscular tension; spastic.
(of a solution) Having a greater osmotic pressure than another.
hypertoxic
hypertoxic
adj
(rare, toxicology) Excessively toxic.
hypnotiser
hypnotiser
noun
Alternative form of hypnotizer
hypnotizer
hypnotizer
noun
One who, or that which, hypnotizes.
hypocrital
hypocrital
adj
(dated) hypocritical
hypocrites
hypocrites
noun
plural of hypocrite
hypocritic
hypocritic
adj
Synonym of hypocritical
noun
A hypocrite.
hyponitric
hypoptilar
hypotheria
hypotralia
hypotricha
lipotrophy
microphyte
microphyte
noun
(biology) Any microscopic plant or alga
nitrophyte
nitrophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant that tolerates or thrives in a nitrogen-rich soil.
notaryship
notaryship
noun
The state of being a notary.
oariopathy
ophiolatry
ophiolatry
noun
snake worship
periphyton
periphyton
noun
(ecology) A mixture of algae, cyanobacteria, heterotrophic microbes, and detritus that is attached to submerged surfaces in most aquatic ecosystems.
petrohyoid
petrohyoid
adj
(anatomy) Pertaining to the petrous, or periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch.
noun
(anatomy) A muscle of this kind.
photogyric
physiocrat
physiocrat
noun
(economics, now historical) Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws.
polyhistor
polyhistor
noun
Someone gifted or learned to a great extent or in multiple disciplines; a great scholar.
porphyrite
porphyrite
noun
A rock with a porphyritic structure.
prehistory
prehistory
noun
(humorous, hyperbolic) Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
(often as pre-history) The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
The study of those times.
The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
prethyroid
pretyphoid
pretyphoid
adj
Before the onset of typhoid.
procharity
psychotria
pyrethroid
pyrethroid
noun
(organic chemistry) Any of several synthetic insecticides having a structure based on pyrethrin.
pyrotheria
pyrrhonist
pyrrhonist
Noun
A follower of Pyrrho; a skeptic.
pyrrhotine
pyrrhotine
noun
(mineralogy) pyrrhotite
pyrrhotism
pyrrhotist
pyrrhotite
pyrrhotite
noun
(mineralogy) A weakly magnetic ferrous sulfide mineral, FeS.
pythagoric
pythagoric
Adjective
Pythagorean.
Noun
Pythagorean.
rhizophyte
rhizophyte
noun
(botany) Any vascular plant that has roots
syntrophic
syntrophic
adj
Of or pertaining to syntrophy.
thixotropy
thixotropy
noun
(medicine) The property of certain gels whereby they become fluids when agitated and return to being solid or semi-solid when allowed to stand.
(physics) The reduction of viscosity with increased shear
tritonymph
tritonymph
noun
The instar between deutonymph and adult in some organisms.