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- English Word Thomean Definition A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.
- English Word Thomism Definition Alt. of Thomaism
- English Word Thomist Definition A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.
- English Word Thomite Definition A Thomaean.
- English Word Thomsen's disease Definition An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.
- English Word Thomsenolite Definition A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland.
- English Word Thomsonian Definition Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.
- English Word Thomsonian Definition A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.
- English Word Thomsonianism Definition An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
- English Word Thomsonite Definition A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
- English Word Thong Definition A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
- English Word Thooid Definition Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.
- English Word Thor Definition The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
- English Word Thoracentesis Definition The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
- English Word Thoracic Definition Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.
- English Word Thoracic Definition One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
- English Word Thoracica Definition A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.
- English Word Thoracometer Definition Same as Stethometer.
- English Word Thoracoplasty Definition A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
- English Word Thoracostraca Definition An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
- English Word Thoracotomy Definition The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
- English Word Thoral Definition Of or pertaining to a bed.
- English Word Thorax Definition The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.
- English Word Thorax Definition The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.
- English Word Thorax Definition The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.
- English Word Thorax Definition A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.
- English Word Thoria Definition A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.
- English Word Thoric Definition Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.
- English Word Thorite Definition A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.
- English Word Thorium Definition A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.