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Blue (medicine)


blue


1. Having the colour of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament."

2. Pale, without redness or glare, said of a flame; hence, of the colour of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.

5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

6. Literary; applied to women; an abbreviation of bluestocking. "The ladies were very blue and well informed." (Thackeray) Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite. Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue colour, almost black. Blue blood. See Blood. Blue buck, sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. Blue water, the open ocean. To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected. True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the colour adopted by the Covenanters. "For his Religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue." (Hudibras)

Origin: OE. Bla, blo, blew, blue, Sw. Bl, D. Blauw, OHG. Blo, G. Blau; but influenced in form by F. Bleu, from OHG. Blao.

1. One of the seven colours into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the colour of the clear sky, or a colour resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such colour. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

3. [Short for blue devils] Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. Berlin blue, Prussian blue. Mineral blue. See Mineral. Prussian blue. See Prussian.

Source: Websters Dictionary


temporomandibular syndrome (medicine)


temporomandibular syndrome
<syndrome> Those various symptoms of discomfort, pain, or pathosis stated to be caused by loss of vertical dimension, lack of posterior occlusion, or Other malocclusion, trismus, muscle tremor, arthritis, or direct trauma to the temporomandibular joint.