मेदस्

{ mēdas }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

मेदस्  n.  n. fat, marrow, lymph (as one of the 7 धातुs, q.v.; its proper seat is said to be the abdomen), [RV.] &c. &c.
excessive fatness, corpulence, [ŚārṅgS.]
व्   a mystical term for the letter , [Up.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

मेदस् [mēdas]  n. n. [मेद-असुन्]
Fat, marrow (one of the seven dhātus of the body and supposed to lie in the abdomen); [Ms.3.182;] मेदसा तर्पयेद् देवानथर्वाङ्गिरसः पठन् [Y.1.44;] पिपीलिकाभिराचीर्णमेदस्त्वङ्मांसशोणितम् [Bhāg.7.3.15.]
Corpulence, fat of the body; मेदच्छेदकृशोदरं लघु भवत्यु- त्थानयोग्यं वपुः [Ś.2.5.]
Excessive fatness, morbid corpulence. -Comp.
-अर्बुदम्   a fatty tumour.
-कृत्  m. m., n. flesh.
-गण्डः   a kind of fatty excrescence.
-ग्रन्थिः   a fatty tumour.
-जम्, -तेजस्  n. n. a bone.
-दोषः, -रोगः   excessive fatness.
-धरा   a membrane in the abdomen containing the fat.
-पिण्डः   a lump of fat.
-वहम्   a lymphatic.
-वृद्धिः  f. f.
increase of fat, corpulence.
enlargement of the scrotum.

Shabda-Sagara

मेदस्  n.  ( -दः)
1. Marrow; applicable not merely to the marrow of the bones, but more properly, to the serous or adipose secretion that spreads amongst the muscular fibres, and which is consi- dered as performing the same functions to the flesh that the marrow of the bones performs to them: in Hindu physiology its proper seat is said to be the abdomen.
2. Morbid or unnatural corpulency.
E. मिद् to be unctuous, असुन् aff.

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मिद् असुन्