Ablepsy :: Ablepsy (n.) Blindness.

Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..

Adeps :: Adeps (n.) Animal fat; lard.

Analepsis :: Analepsis () Alt. of Analeps.

Analepsy :: Analepsy () Recovery of strength after sickness.

Analepsy :: Analepsy () A species of epileptic attack, originating from gastric disorder..

Apepsy :: Apepsy (n.) Defective digestion, indigestion..

Bed Steps :: Bed steps () Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height.

Biceps :: Biceps (n.) A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh..

Catalepsis :: Catalepsis (n.) A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues..

Catalepsy :: Catalepsy (n.) Alt. of Catalepsi.

Chepster :: Chepster (n.) The European starling.

Clepsine :: Clepsine (n.) A genus of fresh-water leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms..

Clepsydra :: Clepsydra (n.) A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix..

Dyspepsia :: Dyspepsia () Alt. of Dyspeps.

Dyspepsy :: Dyspepsy () A kind of indigestion; a state of the stomach in which its functions are disturbed, without the presence of other diseases, or, if others are present, they are of minor importance. Its symptoms are loss of appetite, nausea, heartburn, acrid or fetid eructations, a sense of weight or fullness in the stomach, etc..

Epanalepsis :: Epanalepsis (n.) A figure by which the same word or clause is repeated after intervening matter.

Epilepsy :: Epilepsy (n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles..

Epsom Salts :: Epsom salts () Alt. of sal.

Epsomite :: Epsomite (n.) Native sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salt.

Eupepsia :: Eupepsia (n.) Alt. of Eupeps.

Eupepsy :: Eupepsy (n.) Soundness of the nutritive or digestive organs; good concoction or digestion; -- opposed to dyspepsia.

Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..

Forceps :: Forceps (n.) The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig.

Hysteroepilepsy :: Hysteroepilepsy (n.) A disease resembling hysteria in its nature, and characterized by the occurrence of epileptiform convulsions, which can often be controlled or excited by pressure on the ovaries, and upon other definite points in the body..

Isopepsin :: Isopepsin (n.) Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40� to 60� C.

Keepsake :: Keepsake (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship..

Metalepses :: Metalepses (pl. ) of Metalepsi.

Metalepsis :: Metalepsis (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word..

Metalepsy :: Metalepsy (n.) Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.

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