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vizcacha (medicine)


vizcacha
<zoology> A large burrowing South American rodent (Lagostomus trichodactylus) allied to the chinchillas, but much larger. Its fur is soft and rather long, mottled gray above, white or yellowish white beneath. There is a white band across the muzzle, and a dark band on each cheek. It inhabits grassy plains, and is noted for its extensive burrows and for heaping up miscellaneous articles at the mouth of its burrows. Called also biscacha, bizcacha, vischacha, vishatscha.

Origin: Sp.

<zoology> Same as Viscacha.

Origin: Sp.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Hollow (medicine)


hollow


1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. "Forests grew Upon the barren hollows." (Prior) "I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood." (Tennyson)

1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. "Hollow with boards shalt thou make it." (Ex. Xxvii. 8)

2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. "With hollow eye and wrinkled brow." (Shak)

3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. Hollow newel, a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. Hollow root.

<botany> See Moschatel. Hollow square. See Square. Hollow ware, hollow vessels; a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

Synonym: Concave, sunken, low, vacant, empty, void, false, faithless, deceitful, treacherous.

Origin: OE. Holow, holgh, holf, AS. Holh a hollow, hole. Cf. Hole.

Source: Websters Dictionary