Word Meanings - CONTRAINDICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An indication or symptom which forbids the method of treatment usual in such cases.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SYMPTOM
  Any affection which accompanies disease; a perceptible change in the body or its functions, which indicates disease, or the kind or phases of disease; as, the causes of disease often lie beyond our sight, but we learn their nature by the symptoms
• SYMPTOMATIC; SYMPTOMATICAL
  Gr. 1. Of or pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; being a symptom; indicating the existence of something else. Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper. Macaulay. 2. According to symptoms; as, a
• METHODIZE
  To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
• METHODIC; METHODICAL
  1. Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.
• METHODIOS
  The art and principles of method.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• METHODIST
  One of a sect of Christians, the outgrowth of a small association called the "Holy Club," formed at Oxford University, A.D. 1729, of which the most conspicuous members were John Wesley and his brother Charles; -- originally so called from
• METHODIZER
  One who methodizes.
• SYMPTOMATOLOGY
  The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicine which treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology. Note: It includes diagnosis, or the determination of the disease from its symptoms; and prognosis, or the determination
• METHODOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodology.
• METHODISM
  The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists. Bp. Warburton.
• USUAL
  Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common. Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. Hooker. We can make friends
• METHODISTIC; METHODISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists. -- Meth`o*dis"tic*al*ly, adv.
• METHODIZATION
  The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
• INDICATION
  Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies. Syn. -- Proof; demonstration; sign; token; mark; evidence; signal. (more info) 1. Act of pointing out or indicating. 2. That which serves to indicate or point
• METHODOLOGY
  The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method. Coleridge.
• COINDICATION
  One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• 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
• IMMETHODICALLY
  Without method; confusedly; unsystematically.
• AMETHODIST
  One without method; a quack.
• WORD METHOD
  A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.
• UNUSUALITY
  Unusualness. Poe.
• MONTESSORI METHOD
  A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and