Canon (n.) A law or rule. |
Canon (n.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign |
Canon (n.) The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration |
Canon (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. |
Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. |
Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter |
Canon (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. |
Canon (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name |
Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended |
Canon (n.) See Carom. |
Canon bit () That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth. |
Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. |
Civil (a.) Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state |
Civil (a.) Subject to government |
Civil (a.) Performing the duties of a citizen |
Civil (a.) Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics |
Civil (a.) Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state. |
Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings. |
Coll (v. t.) To embrace. |
Degree (n.) A step, stair, or staircase. |
Degree (n.) One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like |
Degree (n.) The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived |
Degree (n.) Measure of advancement |
Degree (n.) Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments |
Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood |
Degree (n.) Three figures taken together in numeration |
Degree (n.) State as indicated by sum of exponents |
Degree (n.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. |
Degree (n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer. |
Degree (n.) A line or space of the staff. |
Dental (a.) Of or pertaining to the teeth or to dentistry |
Dental (a.) Formed by the aid of the teeth |
Dental (a.) An articulation or letter formed by the aid of the teeth. |
Dental (a.) A marine mollusk of the genus Dentalium, with a curved conical shell resembling a tooth. See Dentalium. |
Divinity (a.) The state of being divine |
Divinity (a.) The Deity |
Divinity (a.) A pretended deity of pagans |
Divinity (a.) A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man. |
Divinity (a.) Something divine or superhuman |
Divinity (a.) The science of divine things |
Doctor (n.) A teacher |
Doctor (n.) An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree |
Doctor (n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine |
Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency |
Doctor (n.) The friar skate. |
Doctor (v. t.) To treat as a physician does |
Doctor (v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon |
Doctor (v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes |
Doctor (v. i.) To practice physic. |
Doctorate (n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor. |
attainder civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
doctor | children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office, the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor |
medicine practice of medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries, he studied medicine at Harvard |
preventive medicine | the branch of medicine concerned with preventing disease, the medical establishment doesn't profit from preventive medicine |
alternative medicine | the practice of medicine without the use of drugs, may involve herbal medicines or self-awareness or biofeedback or acupuncture |
herbal medicine | the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health |
complementary medicine | the practice of medicine that combines traditional medicine with alternative medicine |
dental practice | the practice of dentistry |
family practice family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
big science | scientific research that requires massive capital investment but is expected to yield very significant results |
dental care | care for the teeth |
brain surgery | any surgical procedure involving the brain |
operation surgery surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
eye operation eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
face lift facelift lift face lifting cosmetic surgery rhytidectomy rhytidoplasty nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
coronary bypass coronary bypass surgery coronary artery bypass graft CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions |
cataract surgery | eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant |
intracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which the entire lens is removed |
extracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed, the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant |
cyclodestructive surgery | an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser |
filtration surgery | eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues, a treatment for glaucoma |
laser trabecular surgery | eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor |
major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
plastic surgery reconstructive surgery anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
sexhange operation transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
holistic medicine | medical care of the whole person considered as subject to personal and social as well as organic factors, holistic medicine treats the mind as well as the body |
phytotherapy herbal therapy botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
tort civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
civil censorship | military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces |
tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
civil defense | activities organized by civilians for their own protection in time of war or disaster |
civil war | a war between factions in the same country |
dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
civil marriage | a marriage performed by a government official rather than by a clergyman |
music medicine | punishment for one's actions, you have to face the music, take your medicine |
civil disobedience | a group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination), Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience |
civil contempt | a failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else |
civil suit | a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant |
civil action | legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution) |
American Civil War United States Civil War War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
English Civil War | civil war in England between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists under Charles I, - |
Spanish Civil War | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government, during the war Spain became a battleground for fascists and socialists from all countries, - |
dragonfly darning needle devil's darning needle sewing needle snake feeder snake doctor mosquito hawk skeeter hawk | slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest, adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc. |