See Also: Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Depressed(medicine)
depressed(dictionary)
depressed(dictionary)
Depressed fracture(medicine)
Depressed price(finance)
Depressed price(money)
Depressed market(money)
Depressed Area(money)
Depressed market(finance)

ignatia (medicine) and depressed (iou)


ignatia (medicine)


ignatia


The dried ripe seed of Strychnos ignatii (family Loganiaceae). It is similar in its properties to nux vomica and is a source of strychnine.

Origin: St. Ignatius


depressed (iou)



depressed ppl adjective. LME.
[from DEPRESS + -ED1.]
1. Astrology. Of a planet: in its least influential position. Only in LME.
2. Having a flattened or hollowed form, such as would result from downward pressure. L16.
3. Pressed down; put or kept down by force or pressure. E17.
4. Brought low in fortune or status; oppressed; socially or economically deprived. E17.
b. Lowered in energy, force, intensity, amount, or degree; weakened. M19.
5. Lowered in physical position, sunken; lower than the General surface. M17.
6. Dejected, dispirited; suffering from depression. L18.
Special collocations: depressed area an area of economic depression. depressed class(es) (in the Indian subcontinent) the lowest caste(s). depressed fracture a fracture of the skull involving displacement of bone inward from the normal cranial contour.
depressedly adverb M18.