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Paired(medicine)
paired(dictionary)
Paired off(finance)
Paired off(money)
Paired shares(money)
Paired beats(medicine)
paired allosome(medicine)
Paired shares(finance)
paired organelles(medicine)

Paired beats (medicine) and Sore (medicine)


Paired beats (medicine)


paired beats


See: bigeminy.


Sore (medicine)


sore


1. <symptom> Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.

2. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation. "Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy." (Tillotson)

3. <medicine> Sore throat, inflammation of the throat and tonsils; pharyngitis. See Cynanche. Malignant, Ulcerated or Putrid, sore throat.

4. <zoology> A young hawk or falcon in the first year. A young buck in the fourth year.

5. A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil. "The dogs came and licked his sores." (Luke xvi. 21)

Origin: F. Saure, sore, sor; faucon sor a sore falcon. See Sorrel.