| hebdomad | A week; a period of seven days. Origin: L. Hebdomas, -adis, Gr. "ebdomas the number seven days, fr. Seventh, seven. See Seven. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hebdomadal | A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors. Origin: LL. Hebdomadarius: cf. F. Hebdomadier. Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly. Origin: L. Hebdomadalis, LL. Hebdomadarius: cf. F. Hebdomadaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hebdomadally | In periods of seven days; weekly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hebdomadary | A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors. Origin: LL. Hebdomadarius: cf. F. Hebdomadier. Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly. Origin: L. Hebdomadalis, LL. Hebdomadarius: cf. F. Hebdomadaire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hebdomatical | Weekly; hebdomadal. Origin: L. Hebdomaticus, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hebe | 1. The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them. 2. <zoology> An African ape; the hamadryas. Origin: L, fr. Gr. "hbh youth, "Hbh Hebe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hebeloma | A genus of mushrooms that is a source of gastrointestinal toxins. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hebephrenia | A syndrome characterised by shallow and inappropriate affect, giggling, and silly, regressive behaviour and mannerisms; a subtype of schizophrenia now renamed disorganised schizophrenia. Origin: G. Hebe, puberty, + phren, the mind (05 Mar 2000) |
| hebephrenic | Relating to or characterised by hebephrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hebephrenic schizophrenia | A severe form of schizophrenia characterised by the predominance of incoherence, blunted, inappropriate or silly affect, and the absence of systematised delusions. Synonym: hebephrenic schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heberden's angina | A paroxysmal thoracic pain, with a failing of suffocation and impending death, due, most often, to anoxia of the myocardium and precipitated by effort or excitement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Heberden's nodes | Exostoses about the size of a pea or smaller, found on the terminal phalanges of the fingers in osteoarthritis, which are enlargements of the tubercles at the articular extremities of the distal phalanges. Synonym: Heberden's nodosities, Rosenbach's disease, tuberculum arthriticum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heberden's nodosities | Exostoses about the size of a pea or smaller, found on the terminal phalanges of the fingers in osteoarthritis, which are enlargements of the tubercles at the articular extremities of the distal phalanges. Synonym: Heberden's nodosities, Rosenbach's disease, tuberculum arthriticum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Heberden, William | <person> English physician, 1710-1801. See: Heberden's angina, Heberden's nodes, Heberden's nodosities, Rougnon-Heberden disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hebetate | 1. Obtuse; dull. 2. <botany> Having a dull or blunt and soft point. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |