Word Meanings - CEREBRO-SPINAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal fluid , a serous fluid secreted by the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever , a

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Of or pertaining to the central nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal fluid , a serous fluid secreted by the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. -- Cerebro-spinal meningitis, Cerebro-spinal fever , a dangerous epidemic, and endemic, febrile disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

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• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• CONSIST
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• CONSISTORIAN
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• SECRETARY
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• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SYSTEMIZATION
  The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
• CEREBROSCOPY
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• SYSTEMATISM
  The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• SECRET
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• CENTRAL; CENTRALE
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• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• UNDERSECRETARY
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• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
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• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
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• BERTILLON SYSTEM
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• CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
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• ANSEROUS
  Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.
• CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
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• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
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