| agnomen | 1. An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus. 2. An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just. Origin: L.; ad + nomen name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| agnomination | 1. A surname. 2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. Origin: L. Agnominatio. See Agnomen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnosia | <neurology> Loss of ability to recognise objects, people, sounds, shapes or smells. Usually classified according to the sense or senses affected (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch). Symptom common to tumours of the parietal lobe of the cerebral hemispheres. (16 Dec 1997) |
| agnosticism | That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc, can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus castus | <botany> A species of Vitex (V. Agnus castus); the chaste tree. "And wreaths of agnus castus others bore." (Dryden) Origin: Gr. A willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with holy, chaste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus dei | A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag. A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope. A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei." Origin: L, lamb of God. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agomphious | Congenital absence of the teeth; it may involve all (total anodontia) or only some of the teeth (partial anodontia, hypodontia), and both the deciduous and the permanent dentition, or only teeth of the permanent dentition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agomphosis | Congenital absence of the teeth; it may involve all (total anodontia) or only some of the teeth (partial anodontia, hypodontia), and both the deciduous and the permanent dentition, or only teeth of the permanent dentition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agonadal | Denoting the absence of gonads. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal | Relating to the process of dying or the moment of death, so called because of the former erroneous notion that dying is a painful process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal clot | Intravascular thrombosis ascribed to the process of dying. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal infection | An acute infection, commonly pneumonic or septic, occurring toward the end of any disease and often the cause of death. Synonym: agonal infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal leukocytosis | One that occurs in a person just prior to death, especially in one who has a "slow death." Synonym: agonal leukocytosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal rhythm | An idioventricular rhythm, characterised by unusually wide and bizarre ventricular complexes, often seen in moribund patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal thrombus | A heart clot formed during the act of dying after prolonged heart failure. (05 Mar 2000) |