| thanatognomonic | Of fatal prognosis, indicating the approach of death. Origin: thanato-+ G. Gnome, a sign (05 Mar 2000) |
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| thanatography | 1. A description of one's symptoms and thoughts while dying. 2. A treatise on death. Origin: thanato-+ G. Graphe, a writing (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatoid | 1. Resembling death. 2. Deadly. Origin: thanato-+ G. Eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatology | <study> A description, or the doctrine, of death. Origin: Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thanatomania | <psychiatry> Illness or death resulting from belief in the efficacy of magic; a phenomenon observed among those primitive societies or illiterate and superstitious people who believe in the power of evil spirits, spells, curses, and individuals over one's bodily processes, with such belief and resulting fear manifesting itself as psychosomatic illness and even death. Origin: thanato-+ G. Mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatophidia | Venomous snakes. Origin: thanato-+ G. Ophidion, dim. Of ophis, a serpent (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear of death. Origin: thanato-+ G. Phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatophoric | Leading to death. Origin: thanato-+ G. Phoros, bearing (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatophoric dwarfism | A lethal dwarfism characterised by micromelia, bowed long bones, enlarged head, flattened vertebral bodies, and muscular hypotonia; lack of pulmonary ventilation causes respiratory difficulties with cyanosis leading to death within the first few hours or days after birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatophoric dysplasia | A severe form of neonatal dwarfism with very short limbs. All cases have died at birth or in the neonatal period. (12 Dec 1998) |
| thanatopsy | Synonym: autopsy. Origin: thanato-+ G. Opsis, view (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanatos | In psychoanalysis, the death principle, representing all instinctual tendencies toward senescence and death. See also entries under instinct. Compare: eros. Origin: G. Death (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thane's method | A method for indicating the position of the central sulcus (Rolando's fissure) of the brain; the upper end of the sulcus corresponds to the midpoint of a line drawn from the glabella to the inion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thane, Sir George | <person> English anatomist, 1850-1930. See: Thane's method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thanksgiving | 1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. "Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving." (1 Tim. Iv. 4) "In the thanksgiving before meat." (Shak) "And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of high thanksgiving still." (Keble) 2. A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties. In the United States it is now customary for the President by proclamation to appoint annually a day (usually the last Thursday in November) of thanksgiving and praise to God for the mercies of the past year. This is an extension of the custom long prevailing in several States in which an annual Thanksgiving day has been appointed by proclamation of the governor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |