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autopsy
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n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine
cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn:
autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM,
postmortem examination, post-mortem examination]
v 1: perform an autopsy on a dead body; do a post-mortem
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bankruptcy
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n 1: a state of complete lack of some abstract property;
"spiritual bankruptcy"; "moral bankruptcy"; "intellectual
bankruptcy"
2: inability to discharge all your debts as they come due; "the
company had to declare bankruptcy"; "fraudulent loans led to
the failure of many banks" [syn: bankruptcy, failure]
3: a legal process intended to insure equality among the
creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent
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biopsy
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n 1: examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to
determine the existence or cause of a disease
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catalepsy
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n 1: a trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and
failure to react to stimuli
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dropsy
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n 1: swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in
cells, tissues, or serous cavities [syn: edema, oedema,
hydrops, dropsy]
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epilepsy
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n 1: a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by
loss of consciousness and convulsions
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gypsy
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n 1: a laborer who moves from place to place as demanded by
employment; "itinerant traders" [syn: itinerant, gypsy,
gipsy]
2: a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany
and who traditionally live by seasonal work and
fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in
northern India but now are living on all continents (but
mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn:
Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma,
Bohemian]
3: the Indic language of the Gypsies [syn: Romany, Gypsy]
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narcolepsy
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n 1: a sleep disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable
episodes of deep sleep; "he believes that narcolepsy is
attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during
waking"
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necropsy
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n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine
cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn:
autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM,
postmortem examination, post-mortem examination]
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tipsy
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adj 1: slightly intoxicated [syn: potty, tiddly, tipsy]
2: unstable and prone to tip as if intoxicated; "a tipsy boat"
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dempsey
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n 1: United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight
champion (1895-1983) [syn: Dempsey, Jack Dempsey,
William Harrison Dempsey, Manassa Mauler]
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c
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adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one
hundred, 100, c]
n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn:
degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C]
2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy
and universality of the speed of light is recognized by
defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn:
speed of light, light speed, c]
3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits)
and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C,
ascorbic acid]
4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four
nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar
(ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C]
5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine;
pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in
three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and
diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C,
atomic number 6]
7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C]
8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge
transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn:
coulomb, C, ampere-second]
9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with
the UNIX operating system
10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major
11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c]
12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy,
snow, C]
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nympholepsy
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n 1: a frenzy of emotion; as for something unattainable
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topsy
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cie
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poughkeepsie
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lithotripsy
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popsy
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kipsie
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