Category: H

An abnormally increased appetite for food and its consumption. Chronic overeating brought about by lesion of the ventromedial region of the hypothalamus bulimia. Long-term compulsive overeating. Excessive food intake. Eating more food than is required; gluttony or binge eating.  

A test used to evaluate the pain responses in animals; by observing the reaction to pain caused by heat, it determines the effectiveness of analgesics.  

Damage to the liver caused by drugs, chemicals, or other agents. Quality of being poisonous to liver cells.  

Indicated as a palliative in heart diseases.  

Cardiac depressant.  

Cardiac tonic.  

Indicated in heart diseases.  

Indicated in hiccough.  

An important body fluid in traditional European or Indian medicine. Proposed by Hippocrates, that the body contains four humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm. Proper balance of these humors was indicative of health, an imbalance indicative of illness, Hippocrates’ body humor theory. Fluids in the body especially the aqueous humor of the eye.…

Pertaining to or resembling herpes.