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An old English law term, signifying a day's work in plowing. … [Read more...] about ARTTRA

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation, or suspended" animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as, the inhalation of poisonous gases or too rarified air, choking, drowning, obstruction of the air passages, or paralysis of the respiratory muscles) with a consequent deficiency of … [Read more...] about ASPHYXIA

A feast or entertainment made at a funeral in the north of England; arvU bread is bread delivered to the poor at "funeral solemnities, and arvil, arval, or arfal, the burial or funeral rites. Cowell. … [Read more...] about ARVIL-SUPPER

med. jur. A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning, fainting. This term includes persons who have been asphyxiated by submersion or drowning; by breathing mephitic gas; by the effect of lightning; by the effect of cold; by heat; by suspension or strangulation. In a legal point of view it is always proper to ascertain whether the person who has … [Read more...] about ASPHYXY

The power of doing. something not taught by nature or instinct. Johnson. Eunomus defines art to be a collection of certain rules for doing anything in a set form. The Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales, h. v., defines it in nearly the same terms. 2. The arts are divided into mechanical and liberal arts. The mechanical arts are those which require more bodily than mental labor; … [Read more...] about ART