depletion | the act of decreasing something markedly |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
pepper-and-salt | a fabric woven with flecks of light and dark |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
saltshaker salt shaker | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling salt |
salt saltiness salinity | the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth |
syndrome | a complex of concurrent things, every word has a syndrome of meanings |
SALT I | the first treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
SALT II | the second treaty between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics resulting from the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
salt pork | fat from the back and sides and belly of a hog carcass cured with salt |
salt cod | codfish preserved in salt, must be desalted and flaked by soaking in water and pounding, used in e.g. codfish cakes |
salt table salt common salt | white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food |
celery salt | ground celery seed and salt |
garlic salt | ground dried garlic and salt |
onion salt | ground dried onion and salt |
seasoned salt | combination of salt and vegetable extracts and spices and monosodium glutamate |
sour salt | crystals of citric acid used as seasoning |
Salt Lake City capital of Utah | the capital and largest city of Utah, located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah, world capital of the Mormon Church |
Dasht-e-Kavir Kavir Desert Great Salt Desert | a salt desert in north central Iran |
Great Salt Lake | a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah |
salt flat salt plain | a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water |
salt lick lick | a salt deposit that animals regularly lick |
salt marsh | low-lying wet land that is frequently flooded with saltwater |
mariner seaman tar Jack-tar Jack old salt seafarer gob sea dog | a man who serves as a sailor |
salter salt merchant | someone who makes or deals in salt |
salt rush Juncus leseurii | rush of the Pacific coast of North America |
annual salt-marsh aster | a variety of aster |
perennial salt marsh aster | a variety of aster |
salt reed grass Spartina cynosuroides | tall reedlike grass common in salt meadows |
salt marsh mallow Kosteletzya virginica | subshrub of southeastern United States to New York |
salt tree Halimodendron halodendron Halimodendron argenteum | spiny shrub of the Caspian salt plains and Siberia having elegant silvery, downy young foliage and mildly fragrant pink-purple blooms |
depletion | the state of being depleted |
salt depletion | loss of salt from the body without replacement (loss by vomiting or profuse perspiration or urination or diarrhea) thus upsetting the electrolyte balance |
acute brain disorder acute organic brain syndrome | any disorder (as sudden confusion or disorientation) in an otherwise normal person that is due to reversible (temporary) impairment of brain tissues (as by head injuries or drugs or infection) |
adult respiratory distress syndrome ARDS wet lung white lung | acute lung injury characterized by coughing and rales, inflammation of the lungs which become stiff and fibrous and cannot exchange oxygen, occurs among persons exposed to irritants such as corrosive chemical vapors or ammonia or chlorine etc. |
attention deficit disorder ADD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD hyperkinetic syndrome minimal brain dysfunction minimal brain damage MBD | a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders |
bulimarexia binge-purge syndrome binge-vomit syndrome bulima nervosa | a disorder of eating in which the person alternates between strong craving for food and aversion to food, characterized by excessive eating followed by periods of fasting or self-induced vomiting |
bulimia binge-eating syndrome | a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and selfondemnation |
carpal tunnel syndrome | a painful disorder caused by compression of a nerve in the carpal tunnel, characterized by discomfort and weakness in the hands and fingers and by sensations of tingling, burning or numbness |
Banti's disease Banti's syndrome | a disease characterized by congestion and enlargement of the spleen, accompanied by anemia or cirrhosis |
Kallman's syndrome | hypogonadism with anosmia, a congenital sexual disorder that prevents the testicles from maturing at puberty |
Kawasaki disease mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome | an acute disease of young children characterized by a rash and swollen lymph nodes and fever, of unknown cause |
Lambert-Eaton syndrome Eaton-Lambert syndrome myasthenic syndrome carcinomatous myopathy | a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back, caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions |
Asperger's syndrome | a psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years, characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior |
paralysis agitans Parkinsonism Parkinson's disease Parkinson's syndrome Parkinson's shaking palsy | a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination |
Addison's disease Addison's syndrome hypoadrenalism hypoadrenocorticism | a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin |
Cushing's syndrome hyperadrenocorticism | a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol |
AIDS acquired immune deficiency syndrome | a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles |