Search for: Healing

7863 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APHERESIS.3 (Noah Webster)

2. In the healing art, the removal of any thing noxious. In surgery, amputation.

7864 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BALM.4 (Noah Webster)

3. Anything which heals, or which soothes or mitigates pain.

7865 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHIRURGEON.1 (Noah Webster)

CHIRURGEON, n. A surgeon; one whose profession is to heal diseases by manual operations, instruments or external applications.

7866 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHIRURGERY.1 (Noah Webster)

CHIRURGERY, n. That part of the medical art which consists in healing diseases and wounds by instruments and external applications; now written surgery.

7867 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHIRURGIC.2 (Noah Webster)

1. Pertaining to surgery, or to the art of healing diseases and wounds by manual operations, instruments or external applications.

7868 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CHIRURGIC.3 (Noah Webster)

2. Having qualities useful in external applications, for healing diseases or injuries.

7869 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIX.1 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIX, CICATRICE, n. A scar; a little seam or elevation of flesh remaining after a wound or ulcer is healed.

7870 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIZATION.1 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIZATION, n. The process of healing or forming a cicatrix; or the state of being healed, cicatrized or skinned over.

7871 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIZE.1 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIZE, v.t. To heal, or induce the formation of a cicatrix, in wounded or ulcerated flesh; or to apply medicines for that purpose.

7872 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIZE.2 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIZE, v.i. To heal or be healed; to skin over; as wounded flesh cicatrizes.

7873 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIZED.1 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIZED, pp. Healed, as wounded flesh; having a cicatrix formed.

7874 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CICATRIZING.1 (Noah Webster)

CICATRIZING, ppr. Healing; skinning over; forming a cicatrix.

7875 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLAP-DOCTOR.1 (Noah Webster)

CLAP-DOCTOR, n. One who is skilled in healing the clap.

7876 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEANSE.3 (Noah Webster)

2. To free from a foul or infectious disease; to heal. Leviticus 14:4, 8; Mark 1:42 .

7877 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLEANSED.1 (Noah Webster)

CLEANSED, pp. Purified; made clean; purged; healed.

7878 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CLINIC.1 (Noah Webster)

… the healing art. Clinical medicine is the practice of medicine on patients in bed, or in hospitals. A clinical convert is a convert on his death-bed. Anciently …

7879 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONCEAL.1 (Noah Webster)

CONCEAL, v.t. [L. To withhold from sight,; G., To conceal, and to heal; the primary sense is to strain, hold, stop, restrain, make fast or strong, all from the same root as the Shemitic.]

7880 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. CONGLUTINANT.1 (Noah Webster)

CONGLUTINANT, a. [See Conglutinate .] Gluing; uniting; healing.