Dictionary: HY-PER-OR'THO-DOX-Y – HYP-O-CHON-DRI'A-SIS

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HY-PER-OR'THO-DOX-Y, n.

Orthodoxy indulged to excess. Dick.

HY-PER-OX'YD, a. [Gr. υπερ and oxyd.]

Acute to excess, as a crystal. Cleaveland.

HY-PER-OX'Y-GEN-A-TED, or HY-PER-OX'Y-GEN-IZ-ED, a. [Gr. υπερ, beyond, and oxygenated, or oxygenized.]

Super-saturated with oxygen. Darwin. Med. Repos.

HY-PER-OX-Y-MU'RI-ATE, n.

The same as chlorate.

HY-PER-OX-Y-MU-RI-AT'IC, a.

The hyperoxymuriatic acid is the chloric acid.

HY-PER-PHYS'IC-AL, a.

Supernatural.

HY-PER-SAR-CO'SIS, n. [Gr. υπερ, beyond, and σαρξ, flesh.]

Proud or fungous flesh.

HY'PER-STENE, or HY'PER-STHENE, n. [So named from its difficult frangibility. Gr. υπερ and σθενος.]

A mineral, Labrador hornblend, or schillerspar. Its color is between grayish and greenish black, but nearly copper-red on the cleavage. Jameson. Kirwan. Phillips.

HY-PER-THYR'I-ON, n. [Gr. υπερ and θυριον, a door.]

That part of the architrave in building which is over a door or window.

HY-PER-TRO'PHIC-AL, a.

Producing or tending to produce hypertrophy.

HY'PER-TRO-PHY, n. [Gr. υπερ, and τροφη.]

Excess of nourishment.

HY'PHEN, n. [Gr. υφεν; under one, or to one.]

A mark or short line made between two words to show that they form a compound word, or are to be connected; as in pre-occupied; five-leafed; ink-stand. In writing and printing, the hyphen is used to connect the syllables of a divided word, and is placed after the syllable that closes a line, denoting the connection of that syllable or part of a word with the first syllable of the next line.

HYP-NOT'IC, a. [Gr. υπνος, sleep.]

Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. Brown.

HYP-NOT'IC, n.

A medicine that produces, or tends to produce sleep; an opiate; a soporific.

HY'PO, prep.

[A Greek preposition, υπο, under, beneath; used in composition. Thus, hyposulphurie acid is an acid containing less oxygen than sulphuric acid.

HY-POB'O-LE, n. [hypob'oly; Gr. υπο, under, and βαλλω, to cast.]

In rhetoric, a figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument or in favor of the opposite side, and each of them is refuted in order. Encyc.

HYP'O-CAUST, n. [Gr. υποκαυστον; υπο and καιω, to burn.]

  1. Among the Greeks and Romans, a subterraneous place where was a furnace to heat baths.
  2. Among the moderns, the place where a fire is kept to warm a stove or a hot-house. Encyc.

HYP-O-CHON'DRES, or HYP-O-CHON'DRY, n. [See HYPOCHONDRIA.]

HYP-O-CHON'DRI-A, n. [plur. Gr. from υπο, and χονδρος, a cartilage.]

  1. In anatomy, the sides of the belly under the cartilages of the spurious ribs; the spaces on each side of the epigastric region. Coxe. Encyc.
  2. Hypochondriac complaints. Tatler.

HYP-O-CHON'DRIAC, a.

  1. Pertaining to the hypochondria, or the parts of the body so called; as, the hypochondriac region.
  2. Affected by a disease, attended with debility, depression of spirits or melancholy.
  3. Producing melancholy, or low spirits.

HYP-O-CHON'DRI-AC, n.

A person affected with debility, lowness of spirits or melancholy.

HYP-O-CHON-DRI'AC-AL, a.

The same as Hypochondriac.

HY-PO-CHON-DRI'AC-AL-LY, adv.

In a depressed or melancholy manner.

HYP-O-CHON-DRI'A-CISM, n.

A disease of men, characterized by languor or debility, depression of spirits or melancholy, with dyspepsy. Darwin.

HYP-O-CHON-DRI'A-SIS, n.

Hypochondriacism.