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Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body;preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not ongeneral principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases ofmalaria.In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection ofthe science. Coleridge.Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristicsdistinguishing one species from every other species of the samegenus.-- Specific disease (Med.) (a) A disease which produces adeterminate definite effect upon the blood and tissues or upon somespecial tissue. (b) A disease which is itself uniformly produced by adefinite and peculiar poison or organism.-- Specific duty. (Com.) See under Duty.-- Specific gravity. (Physics) See under Gravity.-- Specific heat (Physics), the quantity of heat required to raisetemperature of a body one degree, taking as the unit of measure thequantity required to raise the same weight of water from zero to onedegree; thus, the specific heat of mercury is 0.033, that of waterbeing 1.000.-- Specific inductive capacity (Physics), the effect of a dielectricbody in producing static electric induction as compared with that ofsome other body or bodies referred to as a standard.-- Specific legacy (Law), a bequest of a particular thing, as of aparticular animal or piece of furniture, specified and distinguishedfrom all others. Wharton. Burrill.-- Specific name (Nat., Hist.), the name which, appended to the nameof the genus, constitutes the distinctive name of the species; --originally applied by Linnæus to the essential character of thespecies, or the essential difference. The present specific name he atfirst called the trivial name.-- Specific performance (Law), the peformance of a contract oragreement as decreed by a court of equity.