| sic | This, to signalise exact transcription. (09 Jan 1998) |
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| sicamore | <botany> See Sycamore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sicard | Jean Anasthase, French physician, 1872-1929. See: Collet-Sicard syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sicca complex | Dryness of the mucous membranes, as of the eyes and mouth, in the absence of a connective tissue disease such as rheumatoid arthritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sicca syndrome | <syndrome> An immunologic disorder characterised by progressive destruction of the exocrine glands (sweat glands, lacrimal glands, salivary glands). Symptoms include dry eyes, dry mouth, persistent cough (dry airways) and lack of saliva. Approximately 30% also have rheumatoid arthritis. Kidney involvement (kidney dysfunction) is seen in 40% of patients. Sjogren's syndrome affects predominately females in their thirties to forties. The lungs, peripheral nerves, blood vessels (vasculitis) and thyroid may also be affected. (27 Sep 1997) |
| siccant | 1. Drying; removing moisture from surrounding substances. 2. A substance with such properties. Synonym: siccative. Origin: L. Siccans (-ant-), pres. P. Of sicco, pp. -atus, to dry (05 Mar 2000) |
| siccative | 1. Drying; removing moisture from surrounding substances. 2. A substance with such properties. Synonym: siccative. Origin: L. Siccans (-ant-), pres. P. Of sicco, pp. -atus, to dry (05 Mar 2000) |
| sicchasia | Synonym: nausea. 2. Loathing for food. Origin: G. Sikchasia, loathing, fr. Sikchos, squeamish (05 Mar 2000) |
| siccolabile | Subject to alteration or destruction on drying. Origin: L. Siccus, dry, + labilis, perishable (05 Mar 2000) |
| siccostabile | Siccostable Not subject to alteration or destruction on drying. Origin: L. Siccus, dry, + stabilis, stable (05 Mar 2000) |
| sick | 1. Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. "Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever." (Mark i. 30) "Behold them that are sick with famine." (Jer. Xiv. 18) 2. Affected with, or attended by, nausea; inclined to vomit; as, sick at the stomach; a sick headache. 3. Having a strong dislike; disgusted; surfeited; with of; as, to be sick of flattery. "He was not so sick of his master as of his work." (L'Estrange) 4. Corrupted; imperfect; impaired; weakned. "So great is his antipathy against episcopacy, that, if a seraphim himself should be a bishop, he would either find or make some sick feathers in his wings. <medicine>" (Fuller) Sick bay, a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. Sick room, a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. Synonym: Diseased, ill, disordered, distempered, indisposed, weak, ailing, feeble, morbid. Origin: These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc, are also written both hyphened and solid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sick building syndrome | <syndrome> A group of symptoms that are two- to three-fold more common in those who work in large, energy-efficient buildings, associated with an increased frequency of headaches, lethargy, and dry skin. Clinical manifestations include hypersensitivity pneumonitis (alveolitis, extrinsic allergic), allergic rhinitis (rhinitis, allergic, perennial), asthma, infections, skin eruptions, and mucous membrane irritation syndromes. Current usage tends to be less restrictive with regard to the type of building and delineation of complaints. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sick euthyroid syndrome | <syndrome> Abnormalities in levels of hormones and function tests related to the thyroid gland occurring in patients with severe systemic disease. Thyroid function is actually normal in these patients, and it is uncertain whether treatment of these abnormalities would be beneficial. Synonym: sick euthyroid syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sick headache | <disease> An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache, usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability, nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows. Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head (18 Nov 1997) |
| sick leave | An absence from work permitted because of illness or the number of days per year for which an employer agrees to pay employees who are sick. (12 Dec 1998) |