| anger | 1. Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc. "I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . The greatest anger and soreness still continued." (Temple) 2. A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury. "Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him." (Shak) Synonym: Resentment, wrath, rage, fury, passion, ire gall, choler, indignation, displeasure, vexation, grudge, spleen. Anger, Indignation, Resentment, Wrath, Ire, Rage, Fury. Anger is a feeling of keen displeasure (usually with a desire to punish) for what we regard as wrong toward ourselves or others. It may be excessive or misplaced, but is not necessarily criminal. Indignation is a generous outburst of anger in view of things which are indigna, or unworthy to be done, involving what is mean, cruel, flagitious, etc, in character or conduct. Resentment is often a moody feeling, leading one to brood over his supposed personal wrongs with a deep and lasting anger. See Resentment. Wrath and ire (the last poetical) express the feelings of one who is bitterly provoked. Rage is a vehement ebullition of anger; and fury is an excess of rage, amounting almost to madness. Warmth of constitution often gives rise to anger; a high sense of honor creates indignation at crime; a man of quick sensibilities is apt to cherish resentment; the wrath and ire of men are often connected with a haughty and vindictive spirit; rage and fury are distempers of the soul to be regarded only with abhorrence. Origin: OE. Anger, angre, affliction, anger, fr. Icel. Angr affliction, sorrow; akin to Dan. Anger regret, Swed. Anger regret, AS. Ange oppressed, sad, L. Angor a strangling, anguish, angere to strangle, Gr. To strangle, Skr. Amhas pain, and to. Anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perh. Awe, ugly. The word seems to have orig. Meant to choke, squeeze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Anger camera | A scintigraphic imaging system or type of gamma camera; employing a single thin crystal and multiple photodetecting circuits, that views the entire field at once and is most effective in the 100-to 511-keV energy range. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Anger, Hal | <person> U.S. Electrical engineer, *1920. See: Anger camera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| morbid | 1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." 2. Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy. Synonym: Diseased, sickly, sick. Morbid, Diseased. Morbid is sometimes used interchangeably with diseased, but is commonly applied, in a somewhat technical sense, to cases of a prolonged nature; as, a morbid condition of the nervous system; a morbid sensibility, etc. Origin: L. Morbidus, fr. Morbus disease; prob. Akin to mori to die: cf. F. Morbide, It. Morbido. See Mortal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morbid impulse | An impulse that drives one to commit some act, usually of a deviant or forbidden nature, notwithstanding efforts to restrain oneself. (05 Mar 2000) |
| morbid obesity | Obesity sufficient to prevent normal activity or physiologic function, or to cause the onset of a pathologic condition. Simple obesity, obesity resulting when caloric intake exceeds energy expenditure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| morbid thirst | An abnormal or excessive thirst, or a craving for unusual forms of drink. Synonym: dipsosis, morbid thirst. Origin: G. Dipseo, to thirst (05 Mar 2000) |
| obesity, morbid | The condition of weighing two, three, or more times the ideal weight, so called because it is associated with many serious and life-threatening disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |