See Also: berylliosis(medicine)
Berylliosis(health)

visive (iou) and berylliosis (medicine)


visive (iou)



visive adjective.LME.
[French visif, -ive or late Latin visivus, from Latin visus seeing, sight.]
Of or pertaining to sight or the power of seeing; visual. Freq. in visive faculty, visive power, etc. LME-M19.
visive organ the eye.
b. Serving as a means by which sight or vision is made possible. M17-E19.
c. Having the power of vision; able to see. rare. L17-L18.
Forming the object of vision; visible; falling upon or appearing to the eye. L16-L17.

berylliosis (medicine)


berylliosis
<chest medicine> Beryllium exposure may produce acute pneumonitis or chronic interstitial pneumonia. Can be histologically indistinguishable from sarcoidosis.