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esophageal electrode, esophageal pill electrode
1. A electrode placed in the esophagus to obtain electrocardiographic records from this region or used for electrical pacemaking.
2. A pill electrode that lodges in the esophagus at the level of the atrium to obtain electrograms and to deliver pacing stimuli.
ethereal (adjective), more ethereal, most ethereal
etymological (adjective), more etymological, most etymological
1. Relating to science of the origins and development of words. 2. A reference to or in accordance with the earliest known forms of verbal expressions either in the same language or in ancestral ones from which other terms in the same speech are derived.
external (adjective), more external, most external
extracorporeal (adjective), more extracorporeal, most extracorporeal
fatal (adjective) (not comparable)
1. Controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined.
2. Causing or capable of causing death: "Karla's brother died in a fatal car accident."
3. Causing destruction, disaster, or ruin.
4. Marking an important or decisive stage in a process or series of events.
5. Etymology: from Latin fata, fatum, "thing spoken (by the gods), one's destiny"; from fari, "to speak".
Referring to the fibula and the calcaneus (the largest of the tarsal bones, skeletal part of the foot, which is situated at the lower and back part of the foot forming the heel).
filial (adjective), more filial, most filial
1. Pertaining or referring to a son or a daughter: "Sharen had a warm, filial relationship, with both of her grown children."
2. Descriptive of a generation, or generations, who have descended from previous ones: "Each of the children had the filial nose which was recognizable from generation to generation."
final (adjective), more final, most final
Descriptive of that which happens or comes at the end: Dr. Samuel's decision to resign from the surgery department at the hospital was his final act before he took early retirement.

The plans for the final trip this summer have been completed and will take place next weekend.

Did you hear what the final score of the football game was last night?

funereal (fyoo NIR ee uhl) (adjective), more funereal, most funereal
1. A reference to a somber or mournful situation which is suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial: There were many funereal emotions when Catherine attended her mother's internment at the cemetery.
2. Pertaining to being very slow, solemn, mournful, or dismal: It was obvious that there was a funereal gloom and sadness when Karl's father was being buried.
3. Referring to a solemn and sad occasion for the departure of someone from this life: There was a store which was stocked with several funereal kinds of clothing that would be appropriate to wear to the state burial of the former governor.
A reference to a solemn and sad occasion for the departure of someone from this life.
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An appropriately sad atmosphere.
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1. Of or relating to a globe; such as, the eye.
2. Of or involving the entire world.
3. Considered in its entirety; with attention to the broadest view of a situation.
4. A reference to the whole world; worldwide; involving the entire earth; universal; comprehensive.
5. Globular; globe-shaped.
6. Pertaining to, or using a terrestrial or celestial globe; having the shape of a globe; spherical.
Callipygian Venus statue
glottal, glottic, glottidean
A speech sound that is produced by wholly or partially closing the glottis (middle part of the larynx, the area where the vocal cords are located).
1. Referring to the buttocks or to one of its component structures.
1. Something written or drawn or engraved.
2. Relating to, or presented by, a graph.
3. Describing something with accuracy.