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- English Word Volution Definition A spiral turn or wreath.
- English Word Volution Definition A whorl of a spiral shell.
- English Word Volva Definition A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.
- English Word Volvox Definition A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
- English Word Volvulus Definition The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.
- English Word Volvulus Definition Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.
- English Word Volyer Definition A lurcher.
- English Word Vomer Definition A bone, or one of a pair of bones, beneath the ethmoid region of the skull, forming a part a part of the partition between the nostrils in man and other mammals.
- English Word Vomer Definition The pygostyle.
- English Word Vomerine Definition Of or pertaining to the vomer.
- English Word Vomic nut Definition Same as Nux vomica.
- English Word Vomica Definition An abscess cavity in the lungs.
- English Word Vomica Definition An abscess in any other parenchymatous organ.
- English Word Vomicine Definition See Brucine.
- English Word Vomit Definition To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
- English Word Vomit Definition To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
- English Word Vomit Definition Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
- English Word Vomit Definition Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
- English Word Vomit Definition That which excites vomiting; an emetic.
- English Word Vomited Definition of Vomit