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Toxic, poisonous. 



Transient, lasting a few days. 



Translucent, allowing light to pass thru without allowing complete visibility of objects 



seen thru the substance in question. 

 Trituration, thoro grinding in a mortar. 

 Truncate, ends abrupt, square. 



Turbid, cloudy with flocculent particles; i. e., cloudy plus flocculence. 

 Ulcer, an open sore. 

 Undulate, wavy. 

 Villous, having short, thick, hair-like processes on the surface, intermediate in meaning 



between papillate and filamentous. 

 Virulence, degree of pathogenicity (referring to infectiousness). 

 Virus, a self-propogating cause of disease, often referring to one too small to be seen 



with microscope. 

 Viscid, growth follows the needle when touched and withdrawn; sediment on shaking 



rises as a coherent swirl. 



