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- English Word Epicycloidal Definition Pertaining to the epicycloid, or having its properties.
- English Word Epideictic Definition Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to persuade.
- English Word Epidemic Definition Alt. of Epidemical
- English Word Epidemic Definition An epidemic disease.
- English Word Epidemic Definition Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
- English Word Epidemical Definition Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
- English Word Epidemical Definition Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.
- English Word Epidemically Definition In an epidemic manner.
- English Word Epidemiography Definition A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
- English Word Epidemiological Definition Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
- English Word Epidemiologist Definition A person skilled in epidemiology.
- English Word Epidemiology Definition That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
- English Word Epidemy Definition An epidemic disease.
- English Word Epiderm Definition The epidermis.
- English Word Epidermal Definition Of or pertaining to the epidermis; epidermic; cuticular.
- English Word Epidermatic Definition Epidermal.
- English Word Epidermatoid Definition Epidermoid.
- English Word Epidermeous Definition Epidermal.
- English Word Epidermic Definition Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.
- English Word Epidermical Definition Epidermal.
- English Word Epidermidal Definition Epidermal.
- English Word Epidermis Definition The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
- English Word Epidermis Definition The outermost layer of the cells, which covers both surfaces of leaves, and also the surface of stems, when they are first formed. As stems grow old this layer is lost, and never replaced.
- English Word Epidermoid Definition Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.
- English Word Epidermose Definition Keratin.
- English Word Epidictic Definition Alt. of Epidictical
- English Word Epidictical Definition Serving to explain; demonstrative.
- English Word Epididymis Definition An oblong vermiform mass on the dorsal side of the testicle, composed of numerous convolutions of the excretory duct of that organ.
- English Word Epididymitis Definition Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
- English Word Epidote Definition A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.