Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Profuse expectoration of putrid matter.
- noun An abnormal pus-containing cavity, usually in a lung, caused by deterioration of tissue.
- noun The pus contained in such a cavity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a cavity in the lung, resulting from a pathological process, and containing pus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An abscess cavity in the lungs.
- noun An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine An
abscess cavity in thelungs or any otherparenchymal organ .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Five homeopathic medicines were used: Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and Sepia.
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Five homeopathic medicines were used: Lachesis, Natrum muriaticum, Nux vomica, Pulsatilla, and Sepia.
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The characteristic floristic elements are Manilkara hexandra, Mimusops elengi, Diospyros ebernum, Strychnos nux-vomica, Eugenia spp.,
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Some examples of remedies commonly used areChamomilla, Nux vomica, Ipecac, andColchicum.
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When Termite discovers the words vomica, vomit, vomitive, vomitory, vomitorium, vomiturition, and vomitus in the dictionary, she comments that, Page 1,355 has got to be the best page of the dictionary ever.
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To these were added great numbers of the fruit which yields a variety of the nux vomica, from which we derive that virulent poison strychnia.
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Either that or the salubrious locality she indwelleth is experiencing a nux vomica famine.
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If, for example, there was no vomica in the lungs; and the business was to attenuate the lymph, what could be more preposterous than to advise the chalk of
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We saw the Batoka eating the beans called nju, which are contained in a large square pod; also the pulp between the seeds of nux vomica, and the motsintsela.
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The symptoms more resemble those produced by nux vomica than by any other agent.
cryptofascistbbq commented on the word vomica
1. a cavity, usually in the lungs, containing pus.
2. the pus content of such a cavity.
November 6, 2009