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VIRULENT

Volume 20 · 69 words · 1823 Edition

a term applied to any thing that yields a virus; that is, a contagious or malignant pus.

VISICERA, in Anatomy, a term signifying the same with entrails; including the heart, liver, lungs, spleen, intestines, and other inward parts of the body.

VISICIDITY, or VISCOSITY, the quality of something that is viscid or viscous; that is, glutinous and sticky like bird-lime, which the Latins call by the name of viscum.