Word Meanings - CONGESTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.
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- FEVER
A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, - CONGESTIVE
Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - FEVERFEW
A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities. - INDICATOR
A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part; as: An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at - INDICATIVELY
In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify. - FEVERISH
1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. - FEVERET
A slight fever. Ayliffe. - ATTEND
L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney. - CONGESTION
Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ ; local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. (more info) 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. The - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - FEVEROUS
1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever; - FEVERY
Feverish. B. Jonson. - ATTENDANT
Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, - ATTENDANCE
1. Attention; regard; careful application. Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13. 2. The act of attending; state of being in waiting; service; ministry; the fact of being present; presence. Constant attendance at church three times - FEVERWORT
See FEVER - INDICATED
Shown; denoted; registered; measured. Indicated power. See Indicated horse power, under Horse power. - ATTENDANCY
The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. - INDICATORY
Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying. - ATTENDER
One who, or that which, attends. - COINDICATION
One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. - SHODDY FEVER
A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust. - TORSION INDICATOR
An autographic torsion meter. - BUCK FEVER
Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. - VINDICATION
The claiming a thing as one's own; the asserting of a right or title in, or to, a thing. Burrill. (more info) 1. The act of vindicating, or the state of being vindicated; defense; justification against denial or censure; as, the vindication of - ENFEVER
To excite fever in. A. Seward. - VINDICATOR
One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains. Locke. - CONTRAINDICATE
To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contrary to that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require. Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey. - VINDICATE
1. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain The birds of heaven shall vindicate their grain. Pope. 2. To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain - CHAGRES FEVER
A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.