| incarnadine | To dye red or crimson. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| incarnant | Promoting or accelerating the granulation of a wound. Synonym: incarnative. Origin: L. Incarno, fr. In + caro (carn-), flesh (05 Mar 2000) |
| incarnation | 1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature. 2. The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ. 3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. "She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead." (Jeffrey) "The very incarnation of selfishness." (F. W. Robertson) 4. A rosy or red colour; flesh colour; carnation. 5. <medicine> The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation. Origin: F. Incarnation, LL. Incarnatio. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incarnative | Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. An incarnative medicine. Origin: Cf. F. Incarnatif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| incasement theory | Archaic theory that the embryo was fully formed in miniature within a gamete at the time of conception. See: homunculus. Synonym: emboitement, incasement theory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| incastelled | <veterinary> Hoofbound. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |