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Vocabulary List 5 & 6
Short but Challenging Words & Medical Science
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Undergraduate 1
02/03/2009

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Bane
Definition
Cause of death, ruin, or distress.
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Deign
Definition
To think it beneath one's dignity; condescend.
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Eke
Definition
To manage to make a living with difficulty. To be FRUGAL.
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Knell
Definition
To ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournful ringing.
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Mete
Definition
To allot, distribute, or apportion.
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Moot
Definition
Discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless.
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Mulct
Definition
To punish by a fine or by depriving of something.

To extract by fraud or deceit.
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Plumb
Definition
Perfectly vertical.
To test with a plumb line.
To discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand.
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Quail
Definition
To draw back in fear.
To lose heart of courage.
To cower.
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Roil
Definition
To make a liquid cloudy or muddy.
To stir up or agitate.
To make angry; rile.
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Ruck
Definition
A heap or stack.
A large quantity or crowd.
Mass of ordinary people or things.
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Shunt
Definition
To move or to turn to one side.
To shift or switch from one track to another.
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Svelte
Definition
Slender and graceful.
Suave.
Polished.
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Thrall
Definition
A slave or bondman.
A person under the moral or psychological domination of something or someone.
Slavery.
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Tryst
Definition
An appointment, as by lovers.
To meet.
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Abscess
Definition
Swollen, inflamed area of body tissues.
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Aphasia
Definition
Loss of the power to USE or UNDERSTAND words, usually caused by brain disease or injury.
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Arteriosclerosis
Definition
A thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, as in old age.
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Biopsy
Definition
The cutting out of a piece of tissue for diagnostic examination by microscope.
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Etiology
Definition
The science of the causes and origins of disease.
Term
Malingerer
Definition
One who fakes illness and pretends to be suffering for motives such as getting out of work, financial incentives, etc.
Term
Mastectomy
Definition
The surgical removal of a breast.
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Prosthesis
Definition
Replacement for a missing part of the body.
Term
Simian
Definition
Of or like a monkey or an ape.
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Tumescence
Definition
Swelling.
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Vasectomy
Definition
The surgical removal of the duct that conveys male sperm--the vas deferens.
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