See Also: electrobasograph(medicine)
Discomfort(medicine)
discomfort(1)(dictionary)
discomfort(2)(dictionary)
discomfort(dictionary)

discomfort(1) (iou) and electrobasograph (medicine)


discomfort(1) (iou)



discomfort noun. LME.
[Old French desconfort (mod. de-), formed as DISCOMFORT verb.]
Loss or deprivation of courage; discouragement, disheartenment. LME-M16.
Absence or deprivation of comfort, pleasure, or gladness; distress, grief, sorrow; annoyance. Also, something that causes this. LME-M19.
Longfellow Thus did that poor soul wander in want and cheerless discomfort.
Uneasiness of body or mind; lack of comfort (lit. & fig.). Also, something which makes one uncomfortable, an inconvenience, a hardship. M19.
E. Bakker Her towering over him added to his discomfort. P. Theroux The journey was not worth this discomfort.

electrobasograph (medicine)


electrobasograph


An apparatus for recording gait.

Origin: electro-+ G. Basis, walking, + grapho, to write