What is DISSIPATION?

A dispersion of matter or of the morbid conditions that cause disease.

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  2. MORBIDITY The quality of disease or of being diseased. Also the...
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  6. GENIUS Some dominant, distinctive quality. G. epidemicus. 1. The predominant characteristic...
  7. FILTH Foul, offensive matter. F.-disease, any disease due to filth. F.-dread....
  8. PHOTOPSIA Subjective sensations of light, as sparks or flashes of fire,...
  9. ENDOPATHIC Pertaining to the origin of disease from conditions or causes...
  10. DISGREGATION Dispersion; separation, as of molecules or cells....
  11. ABEVACUATION (ab-e-vak-u-a’-shun) 1. A morbid evacuation; an excessive or deficient discharge....
  12. PATHEMA Any disease or morbid condition....
  13. MICROZYME Anyone of those microorganisms, or particles of living matter, which...
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  15. ANATOMISM (an-af -om-izni) The theory that anatomical conditions determine all the...
  16. ALLOPATHY (al-op -a-the) According to Hahnemann, the inventor of the term,...
  17. PROSTATISM A morbid nervous condition due to prostatic disease....
  18. LOCALIST One who advocates the origin of a disease in a...
  19. PARAINFECTIOUS par-ah-in-fk’-shits. Pertaining to or characteristic if pathologic states attributable to...
  20. DEPOSIT A gathering of particles that have been held in suspension....