luxusn.
/ˈlʌksəs/ Physiology.
A normal excess of proteid material supposed to exist in the blood. Only attributive (see quots.).
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1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. 78 The excess of the nitrogenous food taken into the system, but not employed, being at once oxidized and converted into urea: this view of its formation is known as the ‘luxus consumption theory’.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 911 Persistent high pressure due to luxus-consumption.
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- in the sullens
- in the sun
- in the superficial
- in the superlative
- in the swath
- in the swim
- in the swim with
- in the swing
- in the tail of
- in the tank
- in the team
- in the teeth
- in the teeth of
- in the thick of
- in the this vicinage
- in the throes of
- in the time of grease
- in the tip of the mode
- in the to the reward of
- in the toilet
- in the toll-book
- in the tollbook
- in the train of
- in the trave