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Automatic (medicine)


automatic -->
automatical


1. Having an inherent power of action or motion. "Nothing can be said to be automatic." (Sir H. Davy)

2. Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the Nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; especially. Applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.

3. Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. "Unconscious or automatic reasoning." (H. Spenser) Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery.

Origin: Cf. F. Automatique. See Automaton.

Source: Websters Dictionary


wooden tongue of cattle (medicine)


wooden tongue of cattle -->
actinobacillosis


A disease characterised by suppurative and granulomatous lesions in the respiratory tract, upper alimentary tract, skin, kidneys, joints, and Other tissues. Actinobacillus lignieresii infects cattle and sheep while a. Equuli infects horses and pigs.