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Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Coalescence :: Coalescence (n.) The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion..

Withdrawal :: Withdrawal (n.) The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction.

Myodynamics :: Myodynamics (n.) The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction.

Presystolic :: Presystolic (a.) Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound..

Synedral :: Synecphonesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Extract :: Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.

Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc..

Cynosure :: Cynosure (n.) Anything to which attention is strongly turned; a center of attraction.

Traction :: Traction (n.) The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle..

Halt :: Halt () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth..

Stenostome :: Stenosis (n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic..

Addition :: Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.

Self-involution :: Self-involution (n.) Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought; reverie..

Abstractional :: Abstractional (a.) Pertaining to abstraction.

Birth :: Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction..

Evection :: Evection () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1� 20'..

Irresistible :: Irresistible (a.) That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction..

Superable :: Super (n.) A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2..

Freeze :: Freeze (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat..

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