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Wart :: Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them..

Thickening :: Thickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thicke.

Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..

Collenchyma :: Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

Tapioca :: Tapioca (n.) A coarsely granular substance obtained by heating, and thus partly changing, the moistened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

Spissitude :: Spissated (a.) Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened..

Incrassation :: Incrassation (n.) The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

Inspissate :: Inspissate (v. t.) To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation..

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Thickened; becoming thicker.

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Puree :: Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated..

Paunch :: Paunch (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint..

Incrassative :: Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.

Sclerogen :: Sclerogen (n.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.

Curdle :: Curdle (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

Coagulation :: Coagulation (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification..

Heteracanth :: Heteracanth (a.) Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides..

Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

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