| apparently | 1. Visibly. 2. Plainly; clearly; manifestly; evidently. "If he should scorn me so apparently." (Shak) 3. Seemingly; in appearance; as, a man may be apparently friendly, yet malicious in heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| apparition | 1. The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. "The sudden apparition of the Spaniards." (Prescott) "The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world." (Sir W. Scott) 2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. "Which apparition, it seems, was you." (Tatler) 3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . A glorious apparition." "I think it is the weakness of mine eyes" "That shapes this monstrous apparition." (Shak) 4. <astronomy> The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation. Circle of perpetual apparition. See Circle. Origin: F. Apparition, L. Apparitio, fr. Apparere. See Appear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appeal | 1. An application for the removal of a cause or suit from an inferior to a superior judge or court for reexamination or review. The mode of proceeding by which such removal is effected. The right of appeal. An accusation; a process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offense against the public. An accusation of a felon at common law by one of his accomplices, which accomplice was then called an approver. See Approvement. 2. A summons to answer to a charge. 3. A call upon a person or an authority for proof or decision, in one's favor; reference to another as witness; a call for help or a favor; entreaty. "A kind of appeal to the Deity, the author of wonders." (Bacon) 4. Resort to physical means; recourse. "Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms." (Kent) Origin: OE. Appel, apel, OF. Apel, F. Appel, fr. Appeler. See Appeal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appearance | 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. 2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. 3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. "And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report." (Milton) 4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. " There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire." (Num. Ix. 15) "For man looketh on the outward appearance." (1 Sam. Xvi. 7) "Judge not according to the appearance." (John. Vii. 24) 5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. "Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?" (Milton) 6. Probability; likelihood. "There is that which hath no appearance." (Bacon) 7. The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. Synonym: Coming, arrival, presence, semblance, pretense, air, look, manner, mien, figure, aspect. Origin: F. Apparence, L. Apparentia, fr. Apparere. See Appear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appellative | 1. A common name, distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. 2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. "God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them." (Jer. Taylor) Origin: L. Appelativum, sc. Nomen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appendage | <anatomy> A structure arising from the surface or extending beyond the tip of another structure. (09 Oct 1997) |
| appendages of eye | The eyelids, with lashes and eyebrows, lacrimal apparatus, conjunctival sac, and extrinsic muscles of the eyeball. Synonym: organa oculi accessoria, accessory organs, accessory visual apparatus, adnexa oculi, appendages of eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendages of skin | The hairs, nails, and sweat, sebaceous, and mammary glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendages of the foetus | Amnion, yolk sac, and the foetal (chorionic) part of the placenta together with the umbilical cord. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendalgia | An obsolete term for pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen in the region of the vermiform appendix. Origin: appendix + G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendant | 1. Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. "As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc, which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Origin: F. Appendant, p. Pr. Of appendre. See Append. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appendectomy | <procedure, surgery> A surgical procedure which involves the removal of an inflamed appendix. This procedure may be performed through a conventional abdominal incision or using a laparoscope. In both approaches the patient is asleep under general anaesthesia. Convalescence in the hospital is 1 to 3 days. Typically much shorter if performed laparoscopically. Rupture of the appendix can lengthen recovery time considerably. See: appendicitis. (27 Sep 1997) |
| appendical | Relating to an appendix. Synonym: appendical. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendiceal | Relating to an appendix. Synonym: appendical. (05 Mar 2000) |
| appendiceal abscess | An intraperitoneal abscess, usually in the right iliac fossa, resulting from extension of infection in acute appendicitis, especially with perforation of the appendix. Synonym: periappendiceal abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |