See Also: Labbe's neurocirculatory syndrome(medicine)
neurocirculatory asthenia(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Labbe, Leon(medicine)
Labbe's triangle(medicine)
Labbe's vein(medicine)
Labbe, Ernest(medicine)
savage(medicine)
savage(2)(dictionary)
savage(1)(dictionary)

Labbe's neurocirculatory syndrome (medicine) and savage(1) (iou)


Labbe's neurocirculatory syndrome (medicine)


Labbe's neurocirculatory syndrome
<syndrome> An anxiety neurosis that may occur in Basedow's disease but may be associated with tachycardia and exophthalmos without increase of basal metabolic rate or Other evidence of hyperthyroidism.


savage(1) (iou)



savage adjective & noun2. . ME.
[Old & mod. French sauvage (Anglo-Norman also savage) from Proto-Romance alt. of Latin silvaticus of woodland, wild, from silva wood, forest: see -AGE.]
A. adjective.
I.
Of an animal: wild, undomesticated, untamed. arch. ME.
Orig. of land, a plant, etc.: wild, uncultivated. Later only of landscape: forbidding, impressively wild and rugged. arch. ME.
Of a noise, movement, etc.: wild, ungoverned; crude. arch. LME.
Now esp. of a people or lifestyle: primitive, uncivilized; uncouth. LME.
savage man (chiefly Heraldry) a primitive person as represented in heraldry and pageantry; a human figure naked or surrounded by foliage.
H. Arendt The honesty..of savage and uncivilised peoples.
b. Remote from society, solitary. M-L17.
Milton O might I here In solitude live savage.
II. Indomitable, intrepid, bold, valiant. ME-L15.
Orig. of an animal, later also of a person, action, etc.: fierce, ferocious; cruel, harsh. ME.
D. M. Frame Our judicial torture..is more savage than their cannibalism. G. Battiscombe Bitten by a savage peccary. transf.: R. W. Emerson The bellowing of the savage sea.
Enraged, furious; coarse, brutal in speech. E19.
G. Greene This..author..had anticipated failure but not this savage public execration.
b. noun.
A primitive or uncivilized person. LME.
the noble savage: see NOBLE adjective.
b. A cruel, fierce, or coarse and uncouth person. E17.
= savage man above. Also = JACK noun1 2. L16.
a. A wild animal. L17-M19.
b. A bad-tempered horse. M19.
savagedom noun the condition of being a savage; savage people collectively: M19.
savagely adverb LME.
savageness noun LME.
savagess noun (rare) a female savage M17.