| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
| 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) |
| subliminal thirst | A physiologic condition, perhaps caused by hypertonicity of body fluids, insufficient to initiate drinking but at times sufficient to sustain drinking when started; loosely, oligodipsia. Synonym: insensible thirst, subliminal thirst. Origin: hypo-+ G. Dipsa, thirst (05 Mar 2000) |
| insensible thirst | A physiologic condition, perhaps caused by hypertonicity of body fluids, insufficient to initiate drinking but at times sufficient to sustain drinking when started; loosely, oligodipsia. Synonym: insensible thirst, subliminal thirst. Origin: hypo-+ G. Dipsa, thirst (05 Mar 2000) |
| thirst | To have a thirst for. "He seeks his keeper's flesh, and thirsts his blood." (Prior) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thirst fever | An elevation of temperature in infants after reduction of fluid intake, diarrhoea, or vomiting; probably caused by reduced available body water, with reduced heat loss by evaporation; an analogous condition in adults is seen when exertion is continued in the face of dehydration. Synonym: dehydration fever, exsiccation fever, inanition fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| true thirst | Thirst that can be satisfied by drinking water. (05 Mar 2000) |