(medicine, obsolete) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
axhammer
axophyte
axophyte
noun
(botany) Any plant with an axis or stem
boxhauls
boxhauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boxhaul
cachexia
cachexia
noun
(pathology) A systemic wasting of muscle tissue, with or without loss of fat mass, that accompanies a chronic disease.
cachexic
cachexic
adj
Relating to cachexia.
caixinha
cathexes
cathexes
noun
plural of cathexis
cathexis
cathexis
noun
(psychoanalysis) The concentration of libido or emotional energy on a single object or idea.
chafewax
chafewax
noun
Alternative form of chaffwax
chaffwax
chaffwax
noun
(UK, law, historical) A chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
chamonix
chamonix
Proper noun
A town in the département of Haute-Savoie.
chapeaux
chapeaux
noun
plural of chapeau
chateaux
chateaux
noun
plural of chateau
cheneaux
chronaxy
chronaxy
noun
Alternative form of chronaxie
cuxhaven
doxantha
exanthem
exanthem
noun
A widespread rash usually occurring in children.
exarchal
exarchal
adj
Of or relating to an exarch.
exarchic
exchange
exchange
noun
(biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
(chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
(finance) The difference between the values of money in different places.
(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange of contracts.
(obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
(telephony, US) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
(usually with "the") The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
A conversation.
A place for conducting trading.
A telephone exchange.
An act of exchanging or trading.
verb
(law, England & Wales, Northern Ireland) Clipping of exchange contracts.
(transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.
(transitive) To trade or barter.
exhalant
exhalant
adj
exhaling (emitting a fluid)
noun
Something that emits a fluid
exhalate
exhalate
verb
to breathe out or upon.
exhalent
exhalent
adj
Alternative form of exhalant
exhaling
exhaling
noun
exhalation
verb
present participle of exhale
exhausts
exhausts
noun
plural of exhaust
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of exhaust
exhedrae
exhumate
exhumate
verb
(obsolete) To exhume; to disinter.
exilarch
exilarch
noun
The head of a community of Jews in the diaspora.
The leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile.
exograph
exophagy
exophagy
noun
(rare) Cannibalism, of those outside a social group.
exotheca
exotheca
noun
(zoology) The tissue that fills the interspaces between the costae of many madreporarian corals, usually consisting of small transverse or oblique septa.
exsheath
exsheath
verb
To remove from a sheath
flaxbush
flaxbush
noun
The bush (genus Phormium) bearing New Zealand flax.
haloxene
hanotaux
haruspex
haruspex
noun
A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails.
hatboxes
hatboxes
noun
plural of hatbox
hexafoil
hexafoil
noun
A design with six round semicircular petals stemming from a central circle.
hexaglot
hexaglot
adj
(rare) In six languages.
hexagons
hexagons
noun
plural of hexagon
hexagram
hexagram
noun
A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles.
A large silver coin minted during the Byzantine Empire.
Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching.
hexamine
hexamine
noun
(organic chemistry) Contraction of hexamethylenetetramine.
hexamita
hexammin
hexandry
hexangle
hexangle
noun
(obsolete, geometry) hexagon
hexaplar
hexaplar
Adjective
Being or relating to a Hexapla.
hexaplas
hexaplas
noun
plural of hexapla
hexapoda
hexapods
hexapods
noun
plural of hexapod
hexapody
hexapody
noun
(poetry, countable) Six metrical feet taken together, or included in one measure.
(zoology, uncountable) The property of being a hexapod; six-leggedness.
hexarchy
hexarchy
noun
A group of six states.
hexascha
hexaseme
hexaster
hexaster
noun
(zoology) A hexact with axes that branch into rays at the extremity.
hexosans
hexosans
noun
plural of hexosan
hoaxable
hoaxable
adj
Able to be hoaxed.
homaxial
homotaxy
homotaxy
noun
Alternative form of homotaxis
hrimfaxi
huxleian
huxleyan
huxleyan
Adjective
Of or pertaining to (1894–1963), British writer.
Of or pertaining to (1825–1895), English anatomist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of theory of evolution.
huxtable
hypaxial
hypaxial
adj
(anatomy) Situated beneath an axis
noun
(anatomy) Such a muscle
hypoxias
hypoxias
noun
plural of hypoxia
matchbox
matchbox
noun
A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.
Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible.
moxahala
oxharrow
oxhearts
oxhearts
noun
plural of oxheart
oxyaphia
oxybapha
paixhans
phylaxis
phylaxis
noun
(medicine) Protection against infectious disease.
saxhorns
saxhorns
noun
plural of saxhorn
saxonish
sixhaend
taxiarch
taxiarch
noun
(historical, Ancient Greece) An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army.
thoraxes
unhoaxed
unhoaxed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unhoax
vauxhall
xanthane
xanthane
noun
Archaic form of xanthan.
xanthans
xanthans
noun
plural of xanthan
xanthate
xanthate
noun
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of xanthic acid.
xanthein
xanthein
noun
(chemistry) The water-soluble part of the yellow carotenoid pigment present in the cell sap of some plants.
xanthene
xanthene
noun
(organic chemistry) any of a group of tricyclic heterocycles (dibenzopyrans) that are the basis for a range of dyes such as fluorescein and eosin
xanthian
xanthian
Adjective
Of the city Xanthos (or Xanthus) in ancient Lycia.
Noun
A citizen of Xanthos.
xanthide
xanthide
noun
(dated, organic chemistry) Any derivative of xanthogen
xanthine
xanthine
noun
(chemistry) Any of a group of alkaloids that include caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine as well as the parent compound, a precursor of uric acid found in many organs of the body.
xanthins
xanthins
noun
plural of xanthin
xanthism
xanthism
noun
(biology, zoology) A yellowish colouring of pigments in hair, skin, feathers, etc.
xanthite
xanthite
noun
A variety of vesuvianite found in limestone near Amity, New York.
xanthium
xanthoma
xanthoma
noun
(medicine) A small, yellow nodule, rich in cholesterol and other lipids, that occurs in the skin, often near a joint
xanthone
xanthone
noun
(organic chemistry) An aromatic ketone, 9-oxo-xanthene, that is used as an insecticide.
xanthous
xanthous
adj
(archaic, ethnology) Pertaining to people with yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.
Yellow-brown; yolk-colored.
xenarchi
xenochia
xenophya
xenophya
noun
(biology) foreign particles found within an organism, such as sand grains