(medicine) Premature degeneration of cells or tissues, especially with genetic causes; loss of function of organ or cell, not due to injury.
altropathy
amphitryon
amyotrophy
amyotrophy
noun
(pathology) atrophy of muscles
anastrophy
aortopathy
aortopathy
noun
(pathology) Any disease of the aorta
apanthropy
apanthropy
noun
An aversion to human company; love of solitude.
apothecary
apothecary
noun
(archaic in US, dated in UK) Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
(archaic or historical) Synonym of pharmacy: an apothecary's shop, a drugstore.
(uncommon) A glass jar of the sort once used for storing medicine.
arthropody
asyntrophy
atrophying
atrophying
verb
present participle of atrophy
autography
autography
noun
(countable, rare) An autobiography.
A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone.
Writing in one's own handwriting.
autotrophy
autotrophy
noun
(biology) The synthesis of food from inorganic substances, using heat or light as a source of energy
auxotrophy
auxotrophy
noun
(biology) The inability of a microorganism to synthesize an organic compound required for its growth, often as a result of mutation.
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.
boanthropy
boanthropy
noun
(psychiatry) The delusion that one is an ox or cow.
cacotrophy
cacotrophy
noun
(medicine, obsolete) Disordered or defective nutrition.
carpophyte
carpophyte
noun
(botany) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization.
charophyta
chromatype
chromatype
noun
Alternative form of chromotype
cormophyta
cyrtograph
cystophora
dermopathy
dermopathy
noun
(pathology) disease of the skin
diastrophy
dystrophia
dystrophia
noun
dystrophy
erotopathy
erotopathy
noun
An abnormality related to sexual desire
erythropia
ethography
ethography
noun
The study and recording of moral behaviour and human manners
fetography
graphotype
graphotype
noun
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or zinc oxide is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leaving the lines in relief.
verb
To produce a design by this process.
hydropathy
hydropathy
noun
The therapeutic use of water, either internally or externally.
hyetograph
hyetograph
noun
A graphical representation of rainfall over time.
hypaethron
hypaethron
noun
An open court.
hypaethros
hyperbaton
hyperbaton
noun
(grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
(rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.
hypertonia
hypertonia
noun
(medicine) An abnormal increase in tightness of muscle tone, common in cerebral palsy.
hypocrater
hypocrital
hypocrital
adj
(dated) hypocritical
hypopteral
hypoptilar
hypotarsal
hypotarsal
adj
Relating to the hypotarsus.
hypotarsus
hypotarsus
noun
(anatomy) A process on the posterior side of the tarsometatarsus of many birds; the calcaneal process.
hypothenar
hypothenar
adj
(anatomy) Of the muscles of the little finger.
(anatomy) Of the ulnar fleshy side of the palm.
noun
(technical) Ulnar fleshy side of the palm, formed by the underlying three muscles of the little finger.
Any of those muscles: the abductor, flexor, or opponens digiti minimi.
hypotheria
hypotralia
hypotricha
keratophyr
macrophyte
macrophyte
noun
(biology) Any normal macroscopic plant, especially an aquatic one.
metamorphy
metamorphy
noun
The quality of being metamorphic.
metatrophy
metropathy
metropathy
noun
(medicine) Synonym of metropathia
myoatrophy
necropathy
neuropathy
neuropathy
noun
(medicine) Any disease of the nerves and nervous system, usually and more specifically the peripheral nervous system, thus including both non-neuraxial and neuraxial instances of neural damage or dysfunction but excluding the neuraxis's psychiatric aspects (mental illnesses).
(medicine) Any disease of the peripheral nervous system; peripheral neuropathy.
notaryship
notaryship
noun
The state of being a notary.
oariopathy
ontography
ontography
noun
The study of how living creatures react to the physiographic environment.
ophiolatry
ophiolatry
noun
snake worship
opotherapy
opotherapy
noun
organotherapy
optography
optography
noun
The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye.
orotherapy
orotherapy
noun
(medicine, archaic) The use of serum to treat disease.
orthopaedy
orthopaedy
noun
Alternative form of orthopedy
orthopathy
orthopathy
noun
An alternative-medicine philosophy advocating a vegetarian raw-food diet with periods of intermittent fasting.
orthoplasy
orthoplasy
noun
(historical) A theory of evolution, stating that that individual modifications supplement, protect, or screen organic characters and keep them alive until useful congenital variations arise and survive by natural selection, and that this process, combined in many cases with 'tradition', gives direction to evolution.
orthopraxy
orthopraxy
noun
Correct practice or action
Right belief combined with right practice, with the emphasis being on the latter, a term specially used in Latin American liberation theology, often in contrast with an orthodoxy seen as insufficiently interested in the practical and political content of faith.
panatrophy
panatrophy
noun
(pathology) atrophy of all parts of a structure or the body; general atrophy
paratrophy
patchworky
patchworky
adj
Like patchwork; untidy, variegated, higgledy-piggledy.
pedatrophy
phagocyter
phasotropy
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.
physometra
physometra
noun
distension of the uterus due to the presence of gas or air
phytograph
phytolatry
phytolatry
noun
The worship of plants.
procharity
protohydra
protopathy
protophyta
psychotria
pyotherapy
pyrotheria
pythagoras
pythagoric
pythagoric
Adjective
Pythagorean.
Noun
Pythagorean.
rhodophyta
saprophyte
saprophyte
noun
any organism that lives on dead organic matter, as certain fungi and bacteria
stylograph
stylograph
noun
A fountain pen that has a thin hollow tube or needle instead of a nib, and which releases ink when pressed against the paper.
tarsophyma
tenography
tenography
noun
The diagnostic imaging of tendons.
tetraphony
tomography
tomography
noun
Imaging by sections or sectioning.
topography
topography
noun
(by extension) A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.
A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
A precise description of a place.
The features themselves; terrain.
The surveying of the features.
trypograph
tryptophan
tryptophan
noun
(biochemistry) An essential amino acid having an indole side chain; it is present in many foods, especially chocolate, oats, bananas and milk; it is essential for normal growth and development and is the precursor of serotonin and niacin; any specific form of this compound, or any derivative of it.
typography
typography
noun
The appearance and style of typeset matter.
The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
The practice or process of printing with type.
typotheria
zoanthropy
zoanthropy
noun
(medicine) A kind of delusion in which the patient believes himself transformed into one of the lower animals.
zootherapy
zootherapy
noun
The use of living animals for medical treatment or as an adjunct to medical diagnosis.