| salutarium | Synonym: sanitarium. Origin: L. Salutaris, healthful, fr. Salus (salut-), health (05 Mar 2000) |
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| salutary | Healthful; wholesome. Origin: L. Salutaris (05 Mar 2000) |
| salutation | The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting or greeting. "In all public meetings or private addresses, use those forms of salutation, reverence, and decency usual amongst the most sober persons." (Jer. Taylor) Synonym: Greeting, salute, address. Salutation, Greeting, Salute, Greeting is the general word for all manner of expressions of recognition, agreeable or otherwise, made when persons meet or communicate with each other. A greeting may be hearty and loving, chilling and offensive, or merely formal, as in the opening sentence of legal documents. Salutation more definitely implies a wishing well, and is used of expressions at parting as well as at meeting. It is used especially of uttered expressions of good will. Salute, while formerly and sometimes still in the sense of either greeting or salutation, is now used specifically to denote a conventional demonstration not expressed in words. The guests received a greeting which relieved their embrassment, offered their salutations in well-chosen terms, and when they retired, as when they entered, made a deferential salute. "Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets." (Luke xi. 43) "When Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb." (Luke i. 41) "I shall not trouble my reader with the first salutes of our three friends." (Addison) Origin: L. Salutatio: cf. F. Salutation. See Salute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salute | 1. To adress, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail. "I salute you with this kingly title." (Shak) 2. Hence, to give a sign of good will; to compliment by an act or ceremony, as a kiss, a bow, etc. "You have the prettiest tip of a finger . . . I must take the freedom to salute it." (Addison) 3. <astronomy> To honor, as some day, person, or nation, by a discharge of cannon or small arms, by dipping colours, by cheers, etc. 4. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify. "If this salute my blood a jot." Origin: L. Salutare, salutatum, from salus, -utis, health, safety. See Salubrious. 1. The act of saluting, or expressing kind wishes or respect; salutation; greeting. 2. A sign, token, or ceremony, expressing good will, compliment, or respect, as a kiss, a bow, etc. 3. <astronomy> A token of respect or honor for some distinguished or official personage, for a foreign vessel or flag, or for some festival or event, as by presenting arms, by a discharge of cannon, volleys of small arms, dipping the colours or the topsails, etc. Origin: Cf. F. Salut. See Salute. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salvability | The quality or condition of being salvable; salvableness. "In the Latin scheme of redemption, salvability was not possible outside the communion of the visible organization." (A. V. G. Allen) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salvage chemotherapy | Use of chemotherapy in a patient with recurrence of a malignancy following initial treatment, in hope of a cure or prolongation of life. Synonym: salvage therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salvage cystectomy | Removal of the bladder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salvage logging | The harvest of dead, dying, damaged, or weak trees to prevent the spread of disease or insects and to reduce the risk of high intensity fire. (05 Dec 1998) |
| salvage pathway | <biochemistry> A recycling metabolic pathway in which biomolecules such as nucleotides are synthesised from intermediates in the degradative pathway for those biomolecules. The intermediate materials would otherwise be waste products. (14 Oct 1997) |
| salvage therapy | <oncology> The final possible treatment for people who are nonresponsive to or cannot tolerate other available treatments for a particular condition. (14 Oct 1997) |
| Salvarsan | Historic proprietary name for arsphenamine. Origin: L. Salvare, to preserve, + sanitas, health (05 Mar 2000) |
| salvation | 1. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity. 2. The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. "To earn salvation for the sons of men." (Milton) "Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation." (2. Cor. Vii. 10) 3. Saving power; that which saves. "Fear ye not; stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will show to you to-day." (Ex. Xiv. 13) Salvation Army, an organization for prosecuting the work of Christian evangelization, especially among the degraded populations of cities. It is virtually a new sect founded in London in 1861 by William Booth. The evangelists, male and female, have military titles according to rank, that of the chief being "General." They wear a uniform, and in their phraseology and mode of work adopt a quasi military style. Origin: OE. Salvacioun, sauvacion, F. Salvation, fr. L. Salvatio, fr. Salvare to save. See Save. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salve | 1. An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. 2. A soothing remedy or antidote. "Counsel or consolation we may bring. Salve to thy sores. <zoology>" (Milton) Salve bug, a large, stout isopod crustacean (aega psora), parasitic on the halibut and codfish, used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length. Origin: AS. Sealf ointment; akin to LG. Salwe, D. Zalve, zalf, OHG. Salba, Dan. Salve, Sw. Salva, Goth. Salbn to anoint, and probably to Gr. (Hesychius) oil, butter, Skr. Sapris clarified butter, 291. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salver-shaped | <botany> Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salverform | <botany> Said of a corolla in which the tube is essentially cylindrical, the lobes abruptly spreading, a gamopetalous corolla. (14 Oct 1997) |