| agnate | 1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor. 2. Allied; akin. "Agnate words." "Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former." (Landor) Origin: L. Agnatus, p. P. Of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. Adnate. A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males. Origin: Cf. F. Agnat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| agnathia | Congenital absence of the lower jaw, usually accompanied by approximation of the ears. See: otocephaly, synotia. Origin: G. A-priv. + gnathos, jaw (05 Mar 2000) |
| agnathous | Relating to agnathia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agnatic | Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Origin: Cf. F. Agnatique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnation | 1. Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Origin: L. Agnatio: cf. F. Agnation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnea | Synonym: agnosia. Origin: G. Agnoia, want of perception (05 Mar 2000) |
| agnogenic | Synonym: idiopathic. Origin: G. A-priv. + gnosis, knowledge, + genesis, origin (05 Mar 2000) |
| agnogenic myeloid metaplasia | A progressive disease of the bone marrow where neoplastic bone marrow stem cells lodge and grow in multiple sites outside the bone marrow. Typically, there is enlargement of the spleen and a gradual replacement of the bone marrow elements by fibrosis (scarring), progressive anaemia and variable changes in the number of white blood cells and platelets. Diagnosis is by bone marrow biopsy. There is no definitive treatment for this disorder that has been shown to affect life span favorably. Origin: Gr. Plassein = to form (27 Sep 1997) |
| agnoiolgy | <psychology> The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant. Origin: Gr. Ignorance. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnomen | 1. An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus. 2. An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just. Origin: L.; ad + nomen name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnomination | 1. A surname. 2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. Origin: L. Agnominatio. See Agnomen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnosia | <neurology> Loss of ability to recognise objects, people, sounds, shapes or smells. Usually classified according to the sense or senses affected (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch). Symptom common to tumours of the parietal lobe of the cerebral hemispheres. (16 Dec 1997) |
| agnosticism | That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc, can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus castus | <botany> A species of Vitex (V. Agnus castus); the chaste tree. "And wreaths of agnus castus others bore." (Dryden) Origin: Gr. A willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with holy, chaste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus dei | A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag. A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope. A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei." Origin: L, lamb of God. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |