Vocabulary 16
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- suture
- the seam formed in sewing up a wound; or method, material, or stitch used in sewing up a wound
- lancet
- a sharp surgical insturment that is used to make small incisions
- cauterize
- to burn with a hot iron or with a chemical preventing infection or stopping bleeding (cauterization, cauterant, caustic)
- elixir
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a remedy that is supposed to cure all ailments; or an imaginary substance once though capable or changing base metals into gold or of prolonging life
-also sweet, syrupy medicine made from drugs or herbs mixed with alcohol - gaunt
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haggard, or very thin and bony
-sometimes gloomy or desolate - dyspepsia
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indigestion or poor digestion
(dyspeptic) - grippe
- a contagious virus disease; influenza or flu
- hypochondriac
- one who worries excessively about ill health and imagines that he or she has various diseases (hypochondrical, hypochondria)
- subsist
- to continue to exist or to remain alive; or to have the necessities of life (subsistence)
- reflex
- a largely automatic movement that results from stimulation of nerve cells
- olfactory
- relating to the sense of smell (olfaction, anosmia)
- diaphragm
- the body partition of muscles and tendons that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity in mammals
- bile
- a bitter fluid secreted by the liver; or ill temper, anger, or bitterness of spirit (bilious)
- 1) astringent
- 1) having the ability to shrink or contract body tissue and blood vessels
- 2) astringent
- 2) stern, severe, or harsh