C Words Flashcards
A complicated metabolic syndrome related to underlying illness and characterized by muscle mass loss with or without fat mass loss
cachexia
A feverish delirium supposedly caused by the heat in the tropics.
calenture
Apple brandy, traditionally made in the Calvados region of Normandy.
calvados
The ability of a system to store an electric charge.
capacitance
Small concave pieces of wood, ivory, or plastic, joined in pairs by a cord and clicked together by the fingers as a rhythmic accompaniment to Spanish dancing.
castanet
In ethics, casuistry is a process of reasoning that seeks to resolve moral problems by extracting or extending abstract rules from a particular case, and reapplying those rules to new instances.
casuistic
The third part of an ancient Greek drama, in which the action is heightened for the catastrophe.
catastasis
A briefly popular or fashionable word or phrase used to encapsulate a particular concept.
catchword
An informal article or talk, typically on a literary subject.
causerie
A social event at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing, traditional dancing, and storytelling.
ceilidh
Relating to division into hundredths.
centesimal
A process of engraving in which the design or the like is cut on a wax-coated metal plate from which a printing surface is subsequently produced by stereotyping or by electrotyping.
cerotype
Pertaining to or having pollination occur in a fully opened flower.
chasmogamous
Showing a band of bright reflected light caused by aligned inclusions in the stone.
chatoyant
A tall chest of drawers, often with a mirror on top.
chiffonier
A member of an Apache people, formerly located in southern New Mexico, southeastern Arizona, and northern Mexico, now living primarily in Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Chiricahua
Concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld.
“a chthonic deity”
chthonic
Recurring naturally on a twenty-four-hour cycle, even in the absence of light fluctuations.
“a circadian rhythm”
circadian
A distinct class of learned or literary people.
clerisy
the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
collocation
An archaic spelling of complete.
compleat
The state or quality of being concave.
concavity
To make (an idea or concept) real; give specific or definite form to.
concretize
An association, typically of several business companies.
consortium
A continuous sequence in which adjacent elements are not perceptibly different from each other, although the extremes are quite distinct.
continuum
A machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
contraption
The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
Coventry
The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
cravenly
A condition of abnormal mental and physical development resulting from a deficiency of thyroid hormone in fetal or early life, typically characterized by intellectual disability, small stature, and thickening of the facial features.
cretinism
A ridge with a gentle slope (dip) on one side and a steep slope (scarp) on the other.
cuesta
An apparatus in which charged atomic and subatomic particles are accelerated by an alternating electric field while following an outward spiral or circular path in a magnetic field.
cyclotron
The dissolution or disruption of cells, especially by an external agent.
cytolysis
