| morbus |
Latin word for disease. In the last century, when applied to a particular disease, morbus was associated with some qualifying adjective or noun, indicating the nature or seat of such disease. Examples: morbus cordis, heart disease; morbus caducus, epilepsy or falling sickness. [NGSQ1988]
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| mortality rate |
The proportion of a population that dies during a specified time period. Also referred to as the death rate.
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| morphologic |
Of, relating to, or concerned with form or structure.
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| morphia |
a bitter crystalline addictive narcotic base C17H19NO3 that is the principal alkaloid of opium and is used in the form of a soluble salt (as a hydrochloride or a sulfate) as an analgesic and sedative Mor
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| mordant |
A substance that combines with a dye to form a lake that serves to produce a fixed color, or stain, in a tissue.
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