Word Meanings - ORGANICISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. Dunglison.

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• ORGANISTA
  Any one of several South American wrens, noted for the sweetness of their song.
• ORGANICALNESS
  The quality or state of being organic.
• ORGANOLOGY
  1. The science of organs or of anything considered as an organic structure. The science of style, as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. De Quincey. 2. That branch of biology
• ORGANDIE; ORGANDY
  A kind of transparent light muslin.
• ORGANOGRAPHIST
  One versed in organography.
• ORGANOGRAPHY
  A description of the organs of animals or plants.
• ORGAN
  A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action , which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs
• ORGANIZATION
  1. The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering. 2. The state of being organized; also,
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• ORGANOPHYLY
  The tribal history of organs, -- a branch of morphophyly. Haeckel.
• ORGANOGENY
  Organogenesis.
• ORGANONYMY
  The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• ORGANITY
  Organism.
• ORGANOSCOPY
  Phrenology. Fleming.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ORGANIZABLE
  Capable of being organized; esp. , capable of being formed into living tissue; as, organizable matter.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• INORGANICAL
  Inorganic. Locke.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• BIORGAN
  A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.