Word Meanings - COWLEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who heals disease of cows; a cow doctor.

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• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DOCTOR
  1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. 2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor. 3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to
• DOCTORAL
  Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• DOCTORLY
  Like a doctor or learned man. "Doctorly prelates." Foxe.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• DOCTORESS
  A female doctor.
• DISEASEDNESS
  The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. T. Burnet.
• DISEASE
  1. Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak. 2. An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting
• DOCTORALLY
  In the manner of a doctor.
• DOCTORSHIP
  Doctorate. Clarendon.
• DISEASED
  Afflicted with disease. It is my own diseased imagination that torments me. W. Irving. Syn. -- See Morbid.
• DISEASEMENT
  Uneasiness; inconvenience. Bacon.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• BASEDOW'S DISEASE
  A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.
• CAISSON DISEASE
  A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure, as in caissons, diving bells, etc. It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms. It is variously explained, most probably as due
• WATER DOCTOR
  One who professes to be able to divine diseases by inspection of the urine. A physician who treats diseases with water; an hydropathist.
• LOCO DISEASE
  A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.
• THOMSEN'S DISEASE
  An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.
• MENIERE'S DISEASE
  A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.
• ADDISON'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition causing a peculiar brownish discoloration of the skin, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not