See Also: Buchwald, Art(hur)(encyclopedia)
Buchwald's atrophy(medicine)
Buchwald, Hermann(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
lh surge(medicine)
surge(1)(dictionary)
surge(2)(dictionary)
re-surge(dictionary)
surge 1, verb(dictionary)
surge 2, noun(dictionary)

Buchwald, Hermann (medicine) and surge(1) (iou)


Buchwald, Hermann (medicine)


Buchwald, Hermann
<person> German physician, *1903.

See: Buchwald's atrophy.


surge(1) (iou)



surge noun. L15.
[Old French sourgeon (mod. surgeon) or its base sourge-: see SURGE verb. In sense 3 directly from the verb.]
a. A fountain, a stream. L15-M16.
b. The source of a river or Other stretch of water. Only in 16.
a. A sudden or impetuous onset of a feeling, process, etc.; an agitated movement, a wave of change. Also (spec.), a rapid increase in price, activity, etc., esp. over a short period; a large but brief rise in pressure, voltage in an electric circuit, etc. E16.
B. England Ansell felt an immense surge of relief. J. A. Michener Some travellers, a trickle at first and then a surge. M. Girouard The surge in property..values since the war.
b. A high rolling swell of water, esp. on the sea; a large or violent wave. Also, such waves collectively; the rising or driving swell of the sea. Chiefly poet. or rhet. M16.
W. de la Mare The solemn surge Of strange and lonely seas.
Nautical.
a. The part of a capstan or windlass on which the rope surges. M17.
b. The slipping back of a rope or chain wound round a capstan etc.; gen. a sudden jerk or strain. M18.
c. A rhythmic motion forward and aft that is additional to any steady speed of the ship. M20.
Comb.: surge chamber, surge tank Civil Engineering a chamber connected by a T-junction to a water pipe so as to absorb surges of pressure by filling and drops in pressure by emptying; surge voltage Electricity the peak voltage produced in a transmission line by an electrical surge.
surgeful adjective (poet., rare) full of surges or billows E17.
surgeless adjective (rare) L16.
surgy adjective full of or characteristic of surges; billowy, tempestuous: L16.