GLOSSARY
Alienist
alien·ist
Outdated term for a physican who studies mental illnesses.
Sanatorium
san·a·to·ri·um
medical facility that offers long term medical care.
Wire
To send someone a telegram.
Zoophagous
zo·oph·a·gous
Eating animals.
Anaemia
anae·mia
A medical condition where there is not enough blood in a person's system. People suffering become very pale and weak.
Transfusion
trans·fu·sion
A medical practice where some fluid is transferred into an artery or vein.
Jove
The Roman God Jupiter.
Delirium
de·lir·i·um
When a person is confused, has a disrupted attention, and having hallucinations and disordered speech .
Posterity
poster·i·ty
All the future generations in a person's lineage.
Typify
typ·i·fy
To represent something in an average manner or represent the essential aspects/characteristics.
WolfsBane
A type of poisonous plant that was used as cure for ailments in Ancient Rome and Greece.
Pharmacopoeia
pharma·co·poe·ia
A book that gives doctor's information about prescribing drugs, chemicals and any other medicinal preparations
Eremophytes
er·e·mo·phyte
The scientific classification for desert plants.
Pliny the Elder
Pli-nee
Roman Scholar that wrote Natural History which highly inarccurate on progress of scientice in the middle ages.
Continentals
A type of poisonous plant that was used as cure for ailments in Ancient Rome and Greece.
Languid
Behaving in a fatigued manner.
Gallant
Being smart, charismatic, and chivalrous.
Land of the Tulip
The Netherlands.
Prostration
A medical condition that causes someone to be unable to move.
Officious
To conduct yourself or conduct an act that is unofficial.
Battlements
bat·tle·ment
A wall with a space that is on top of a wall that can be used for defense/decoration.
Transmute
To change something to often a higher form.
Dematerialization
To lose or appear to lose materiality.
Moonshine
Empty talk.
Voivode
A military commander or governor of a town or province in various Slavic countries
Divan
di·van
A large couch that can be used as a bed.
Belfry
bel-fry
Another word for head.
Mufti
Average or common clothing.
Bucharest
City and capital of Romania.
Incredulous
in·cred·u·lous
Being skeptical and not willing to accept the truth without proper evidence.
Croydon
A borough of southern Greater London.
Airdrome
An Airport.
Lorry
British slang term for a truck.
Fettered
A medical condition that causes someone to be unable to move.
The Blood is the Life
The biblical phrase from the book of Deuteronomy means that No other natural ingredient or man-made material can replace blood as the means of sustaining life.
Sacrilege
sac·ri·lege
Great disrespect and/or a violation of a sacred object.
Dispensation
dis·pen·sa·tion
The general state of things.
Cardinal
A high official in the Roman Catholic church that is right below the pope.
Ebb
When something is becoming slow or in decline.
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