Athermanous
adjective
capable of stopping radiant heat or infrared radiation
Historical Examples
It has been shown that rock-salt is extremely opaque or athermanous to the radiations from a piece of heated rock-salt.
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a combining form representing atheroma, or atheromatous, in compound words: atherosclerosis. athero- pref. Soft gruel-like deposit; atheroma: atherogenesis.
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atheroembolism atheroembolism ath·er·o·em·bo·lism (āth’ə-rō-ěm’bə-lĭz’əm) n. See cholesterol embolism.
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capable of producing atheromatous plaques in arteries. adjective causing atheroma atherogenic ath·er·o·gen·ic (āth’ə-rō-jěn’ĭk) adj. Initiating, increasing, or accelerating atherogenesis.
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a sebaceous cyst. a mass of yellowish fatty and cellular material that forms in and beneath the inner lining of the arterial walls. Historical Examples In the walls of the verminous aneurism one not unfrequently finds all the pathological changes exhibited by atheroma in man. Parasites T. Spencer Cobbold atheroma in the vessels of the […]