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Totipalmate (medicine)


totipalmate
<ornithology, zoology> Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet.

Origin: L. Totus all, whole + E.palmate.

Source: Websters Dictionary


sphacelus (iou)



sphacelus noun. Now rare or obsolete. L16.
[mod. Latin from Greek sphakelos gangrene.]
Medicine. Necrosis, the terminal stage of gangrene; an instance of this; a mass of necrotic tissue.
sphacelate adjective & verb (a) adjective = sphacelated; (b) verb intrans. & trans. make or become gangrenous or necrotic: E17.
sphacelated adjective affected with sphacelus, gangrenous, necrosed; Botany dark and withered: E17.
sphace'lation noun necrosis M17.
sphacelous adjective gangrenous, necrotic L17.