A severe and rapid systemic allergic reaction to an allergen, causing a constriction of the trachea, preventing breathing; anaphylactic shock.
Extreme sensitivity to a substance such as a foreign protein or drug.
anoxybiosis
anoxybiosis
noun
(physiology) A biological response triggered by a lack of oxygen in which an organism takes in water and becomes turgid and immobile; possibly a form of cryptobiosis.
anxiolytics
anxiolytics
noun
plural of anxiolytic
apoxyomenos
apoxyomenos
noun
(art) A conventional subject of ancient Greek votive sculpture: an athlete caught in the familiar act of scraping sweat and dust from his body with a strigil.
archosyrinx
asteroxylon
excystation
excystation
noun
(biology) The stage in the life cycle of a parasite in which it escapes from a cyst (after being swallowed by its host)
expansively
expansively
adv
In an expansive manner
expansivity
expansivity
noun
(mathematics) The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.
expansiveness
inexcusably
inexcusably
adv
In an inexcusable manner.
keratonyxis
keratonyxis
noun
(medicine, archaic) The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye and breaking up the opaque mass.
myxadenitis
myxasthenia
myxasthenia
noun
A reduced secretion of mucus
nasopharynx
nasopharynx
noun
(anatomy) The nasal part of the pharynx, lying behind the nose and above the level of the soft palate.
nonsexually
nonsexually
adv
In a nonsexual manner.
oxygenators
oxygenators
noun
plural of oxygenator
oxygnathous
oxygnathous
adj
Having a smooth jaw
photosyntax
photosyntax
noun
(archaic) photosynthesis
pyoxanthose
pyoxanthose
noun
(chemistry, archaic) A greenish-yellow crystalline colouring matter found with pyocyanin in pus.
saxonically
sexennially
sexennially
Adverb
Once in every six years.
sexivalency
sialosyrinx
synallaxine
synallaxine
adj
(zoology) Having the outer and middle toes partially united; said of certain birds related to the creepers.
