Word Meanings - KINESIATRICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; - - also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.

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• LINGISM
  A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• TERMER
  One who has an estate for a term of years or for life. (more info) 1. One who resorted to London during the law term only, in order to
• KINESITHERAPY
  See KINESIATRICS
• TERMONOLOGY
  Terminology.
• TERMINOLOGY
  1. The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms. 2. The terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms; as, the terminology of chemistry. The barbarous effect produced
• TERMA
  The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• TERMES
  A genus of Pseudoneuroptera including the white ants, or termites. See Termite.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• TERMINATOR
  The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminated part of the moon. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, terminates.
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• TERMLY
  Occurring every term; as, a termly fee. Bacon.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• KINESIPATHY
  See KINESIATRICS
• TERMINATE
  1. To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line. 2. To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy. 3. Hence, to put the finishing touch
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• INTERMURE
  To wall in; to inclose. Ford.
• INTERMEDDLE
  To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
• INTERMUTATION
  Interchange; mutual or reciprocal change.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• INTERMINATED
  Interminable; interminate; endless; unending. Akenside.
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• INTERMOBILITY
  Capacity of things to move among each other; as, the intermobility of fluid particles.
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.