| excessive | Exceeding the usual, proper or normal quantity, given to excess. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| frequent | 1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. "He has been loud and frequent in declaring himself hearty for the government." (Swift) 3. Full; crowded; thronged. "'T is Caesar's will to have a frequent senate." (B. Jonson) 4. Often or commonly reported. "'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci." (Massinger) Origin: L. Frequens, -entis, crowded, frequent, akin to farcire to stuff: cf. F. Frequent. Cf. Farce. 1. To visit often; to resort to often or habitually. "He frequented the court of Augustus." (Dryden) 2. To make full; to fill. "With their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite." (Milton) Origin: L. Frequentare: cf. F. Frequenter. See Frequent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| frequent flooding | <ecology> Flooding which is likely to occur often during usual weather conditions (i.e., more than a 50 percent chance of flooding in any year, or more than 50 times in 100 years). (09 Oct 1997) |
| anovulational menstruation | anovular menstruation |
| retained menstruation | An accumulation of menstrual blood in the vagina. (12 Dec 1998) |
| retrograde menstruation | A flow of menstrual blood back through the fallopian tubes; it sometimes carries with it endometrial cells. Supplementary menstruation, bleeding from the navel or urinary tract due to endometriosis occurring at the time of menstruation. Suppressed menstruation, nonappearance of menstrual bleeding from whatever cause. Vicarious menstruation, bleeding from any surface other than the mucous membrane of the uterine cavity, occurring periodically at the time when the normal menstruation should take place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| menstruation | <physiology> The cyclic, physiologic discharge through the vagina of blood and mucosal tissues from the nonpregnant uterus, it is under hormonal control and normally recurs, usually at approximately four week intervals, in the absence of pregnancy during the reproductive period (puberty through menopause) of the female of the human and a few species of primates. It is the culmination of the menstrual cycle. (18 Nov 1997) |
| menstruation-inducing agents | Chemical compounds that induce menstruation either through direct action on the reproductive organs or through indirect action by relieving another condition of which amenorrhoea is a secondary result. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nonovulational menstruation | anovular menstruation |
| gram-positive asporogenous rods, irregular | <microbiology> A group of irregular rod-shaped bacteria that stain gram-positive and do not produce endospores. (12 Dec 1998) |
| irregular | Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognised as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular. "Mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most when most irregular they seem." (Milton) "Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight Against the irregular and wild Glendower." (Shak) "A flowery meadow through which a clear stream murmured in many irregular meanders." (Jones) Synonym: Immethodical, unsystematic, abnormal, unnatural, anomalous, erratic, devious, crooked, eccentric, unsettled, uneven, variable, changeable, mutable, desultory, disorderly, wild, immoderate, intemperate, inordinate, vicious. Origin: Pref. Ir- not + regular: cf. F. Irregulier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| irregular astigmatism | Astigmatism in which different parts of the same meridian have different degrees of curvature. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irregular bone | One of a group of bones having peculiar or complex forms, e.g., vertebrae, many of the skull bones. Synonym: os irregulare. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irregular dentin | Morphologically irregular dentin formed in response to an irritant. Synonym: irregular dentin, irritation dentin, reparative dentin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| irregular emphysema | Emphysema that shows no consistent relationship to any portion of the acinus; always associated with fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |