Word Meanings - HYDROTHORAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.

Related words: (words related to HYDROTHORAX)

• CHESTNUT
  The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that
• CHESTERLITE
  A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• CHESTED
  Having a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested; narrow-chested.
• SEROUS
  Thin; watery; like serum; as the serous fluids. Of or pertaining to serum; as, the serous glands, membranes, layers. See Serum. Serous membrane. See under Membrane.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• ACCUMULATION
  The concurrence of several titles to the same proof. Accumulation of energy or power, the storing of energy by means of weights lifted or masses put in motion; electricity stored. -- An accumulation of degrees , the taking of several together,
• CHEST
  A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains. (more info) 1. A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
• CAVITY
  1. Hollowness. The cavity or hollowness of the place. Goodwin. 2. A hollow place; a hollow; as, the abdominal cavity. An instrument with a small cavity, like a small spoon. Arbuthot. Abnormal spaces or excavations are frequently formed
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• CHESTEYN
  The chestnut tree. Wilwe, elm, plane, assch, box, chesteyn. Chaucer.
• ORCHESTRAL
  Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
• ORCHESTRIC
  Orchestral.
• ANSEROUS
  Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.
• PASTEUR'S FLUID
  An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
• SEMIFLUID
  Imperfectly fluid. -- n.
• CONCAVITY
  A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.
• ORCHESTRE
  See ORCHESTRA
• INCHEST
  To put into a chest.
• ORCHESTRATION
  The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.
• ORCHESTER
  See ORCHESTRA