| hot | 1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." 2. Characterised by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. "Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful." (Dryden) "There was mouthing in hot haste." (Byron) 3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. 4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. Hot bed, an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc, are laid to cool. <botany> Hot wall, a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump. In hot water (Fig), in trouble; in difficulties. Synonym: Burning, fiery, fervid, glowing, eager, animated, brisk, vehement, precipitate, violent, furious, ardent, fervent, impetuous, irascible, passionate, hasty, excitable. Origin: OE. Hot, hat, AS. Hat; akin to OS. Het, D. Heet, OHG. Heiz, G. Heiss, Icel. Heitr, Sw. Het, Dan. Heed, hed; cf. Goth. Heito fever, hais torch. Cf. Heat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hot abscess | A recently formed abscess with little or no fibrosis in the wall of the cavity. Synonym: hot abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot-blooded | Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hot bone lesions | <radiology> Non-routine localised hot bone lesions: Paget's disease, osteoid osteoma, fibrous dysplasia, melorheostosis generalised: hyperparathyroidism, haematologic disorders, Paget disease (rare), fibrous dysplasia, renal osteodystrophy (12 Dec 1998) |
| hot cell | <radiobiology> Heavily radiation-shielded enclosure in which radioactive materials can be handled by persons using remote manipulators and viewing the materials through shielded windows or periscopes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| hot flash | Colloquialism for one of the vasomotor symptoms of the climacteric that may involve the whole body as a flash of heat; also used interchangeably with hot flush. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot flashes | A sudden, temporary sensation of heat predominantly experienced by some women during menopause. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hot flush | <symptom> A sensation of heat and flushing that occurs suddenly. May be associated with menopause or some medications. (09 Oct 1997) |
| hot gangrene | Gangrene following inflammation of the part. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot liver lesion | <radiology> Vena cava (superior vena cava/IVC) obstruction, QUADRATE (anterior medial segment of left lobe), basilic vein injection most likely to be collaterals, Budd-Chiari syndrome, CAUDATE lobe, cirrhosis, focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), haemangioma see also: liver-spleen scan (12 Dec 1998) |
| hot nodule | A thyroid nodule with a much higher uptake of radioactive iodine than the surrounding parenchyma; usually benign but sometimes causing hyperthyroidism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot pack | A pack of cloth or other material soaked in hot water, or producing moist heat by another means. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot salt steriliser | A steriliser for endodontic equipment in which table salt is heated in a container at 218 to 246캜; the dry heat is transmitted to root canal instruments, absorbent points, or cotton pellets for their rapid (5 to 10 seconds) sterilization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot-short | <chemistry> More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hot spleen | <radiology> Decreased liver uptake, liver disease (e.g., cirrhosis), shunting of portal venous blood, increased splenic uptake, haematopoietic disease, septicaemia, rheumatoid disorders, immunostimulation (tumour, Aldomet, IL-2) see: liver-spleen scan (12 Dec 1998) |