See Also: heterotaxia(medicine)
cardiac heterotaxia(medicine)
mountebank(medicine)
mountebank(1)(dictionary)
mountebank(2)(dictionary)
mountebank(dictionary)

mountebank(1) (iou) and heterotaxia (medicine)


mountebank(1) (iou)



mountebank noun & adjective. L16.
[Italian montambanco, montimbanco, from monta in banco mount (imper.) on a bench: see BANK noun2.]
A. noun.
An itinerant quack, esp. a vendor of medicines, appealing to an audience from a raised platform and using stories, juggling, etc., and often the assistance of a professional clown or fool. obsolete exc. Hist. and as passing into sense 2. L16.
A false pretender to skill or knowledge, a charlatan; a person incurring contempt or ridicule through efforts to acquire something, esp. social distinction and glamour. L16.
= MOUNTEBANKERY. M17-E18.
= BATELEUR. Also mountebank eagle. L19.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mountebank. E17.
Gladstone Theatrical, not to say charlatan and mountebank, Politics.
mountebankism noun (rare) mountebankery M17.

heterotaxia (medicine)


heterotaxia
Abnormal arrangement of organs or parts of the body in relation to each Other.

Synonym: heterotaxis, heterotaxy.

Origin: hetero-+ G. Taxis, arrangement