| jealous | 1. Zealous; solicitous; vigilant; anxiously watchful. "I have been very jeolous for the Lord God of hosts." (Kings xix. 10) "How nicely jealous is every one of us of his own repute!" (Dr. H. More) 2. Apprehensive; anxious; suspiciously watchful. "'This doing wrong creates such doubts as these, Renders us jealous and disturbs our peace." (Waller) "The people are so jealous of the clergy's ambition." (Swift) 3. Exacting exclusive devotion; intolerant of rivalry. "Thou shalt worship no other God; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." (Ex. Xxxiv. 14) 4. Disposed to suspect rivalry in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of rivalry in love or preference given to another; painfully suspicious of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover. "If the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife." (Num. V. 14) "To both these sisters have I sworn my love: Each jealous of the other, as the stung Are of the adder." (Shak) "It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous." (Bacon) Synonym: Suspicious, anxious, envious. Jealous, Suspicious. Suspicious is the wider term. We suspect a person when we distrust his honesty and imagine he has some bad design. We are jealous when we suspect him of aiming to deprive us of what we dearly prize. Iago began by awakening the suspicions of Othello, and converted them at last into jealousy. "Suspicion may be excited by some kind of accusation, not supported by evidence sufficient for conviction, but sufficient to trouble the repose of confidence." "Jealousy is a painful apprehension of rivalship in cases that are peculiarly interesting to us." Origin: OE. Jalous, gelus, OF. Jalous, F. Jaloux, LL. Zelosus zealous, fr. Zelus emulation, zeal, jealousy, Gr. See Zeal, and cf. Zealous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| jealous type of paranoid disorder | The false belief that one's spouse or lover is unfaithful and leading to repeated confrontation, or the taking of extraordinary steps to intervene in the imagined infidelity. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jealousy | An irrational reaction compounded of grief, loss of self-esteem, enmity against the rival and self criticism. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Jeanselme's nodules | A form of tertiary yaws that is characterised by the occurrence of nodule's on the arms and legs, situated usually near the joints. Synonym: juxta-articular nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jeanselme, A Edouard | <person> French dermatologist, 1858-1935. See: Jeanselme's nodules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jeat | <chemical> See Jet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jefferson fracture | <radiology> Burst fracture of atlas (C1), widened lateral masses of C1 on open-mouth odontoid view, vertical compression injury, unstable see also: atlas fractures, cervical spine fractures (12 Dec 1998) |
| jeffersonia | <botany> An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf. Origin: NL. Named after Thomas Jefferson. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jeffersonian | Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| jeffersonite | <chemical> A variety of pyroxene of olive-green colour passing into brown. It contains zinc. Origin: Named after Thomas Jefferson. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Jeghers, Harold | <person> U.S. Physician, *1904. See: Peutz-Jeghers syndrome, Jeghers-Peutz syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Jeghers-Peutz syndrome | <radiology> Autosomal dominant (50% sporadic), hamartomas, primarily of small bowel, also: stomach, colon, occasionally of urinary or respiratory tract, mucocutaneous hyperpigmentation, increased risk of GI and non-GI tumours! (NEJM 1988) Cf: polyposis syndromes (12 Dec 1998) |
| jejunal | Having to do with the jejunum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| jejunal and ileal veins | The veins that drain the jejunum and ileum; they terminate in the superior mesenteric vein. Synonym: venae jejunales et ilei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| jejunal arteries | Origin, superior mesenteric; distribution, jejunum; anastomoses, by a series of arches with each other and with ileal arteries. Synonym: arteriae jejunales. (05 Mar 2000) |