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Term | Definition |
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in | in,not |
ciner | ash |
combus | burn up |
ary | that which something belongs |
tible | able to be |
ator | one who that which condition |
tion | state quality act |
incombustible | not combustible; incapable of being burned; fireproof. |
incinerator | a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage, etc., to ashes. |
combustion | the act or process of burning. |
cinerary | holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies: a cinerary burn. |
combustible | capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible. |
a | away from not |
colla | glue,gelantious |
gen | cause,birth,produce,race |
mano | gas |
meter | measure |
sphym/sphygmo/ | pulse |
age | state,quality,act |
iation | an action or process |
ic | like related to |
oid | resembling |
ous | having the quality of |
asphyxiation | to cause to die or lose consciousness by impairing normal breathing |
collage | a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope. |
sphygmic | of or pertaining to the pulse. |
colloid | a substance made up of a system of particles with linear dimensions in the range of about 10 −7 to 5 × 10 −5 cm dispersed in a continuous gaseous, liquid, or solid medium whose properties depend on the large specific surface area. The particles can be l |
sphygmomanometer | an instrument, often attached to an inflatable air-bladder cuff and used with a stethoscope, for measuring blood pressure in an artery. |
Collagenous | any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals, especially in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells, yielding gelatin when denatured by boiling. |