farc-, fars- +

That which occurs during the period when circulation to a region of the heart is obstructed and necrosis is occurring.

1. A ridiculous situation in which everything goes wrong or becomes a sham (not genuine and used for deception).
2. A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations.
3. A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect; including, the branch of literature constituting such works and the broad or spirited humor characteristic of such works.
4. To pad (a speech, for example) with jokes or witticisms.
5. To stuff, as for roasting; for example, with a mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs.

The strange background of the word farce

In the Middle Ages, the trade guilds of France (labor unions of that time) presented the first crude one-act plays. By the time of Joan of Arc, these interludes of farces were "stuffed" or "crammed" in between the acts of the main performance. The French word farce is derived from farcier, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff".

When the word farce was first used in English, it referred to "cookery", not comedy. In the fourteenth century the French word farce entered English as farse with its meaning, "forcemeat, stuffing" unchanged from the French interpretation.

The French had derived the noun from the assumed Vulgar Latin word farsa, which had been formed from the past participle of the classical Latin verb facire, meaning "to stuff". This use of farce, spelled this way in English since the eighteenth century, is still evident in some cookbooks today.

The use of farce as comedic derives from another sense of the word in early French. From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, especially in France and Spain, Latin liturgical texts; such as, the chanted parts of the Mass, were frequently interpolated with explanatory or hortatory phrases (giving strong encouragement), often in the vernacular language where it was being presented.

Seeing a similarity between the culinary stuffing and the interlarding of liturgical texts, the French also called such an interpolation a farce (in this sense the word is usually spelled farse in English).

Such "farsing" became abusive, however, and it was officially abolished 1570 when Pope Pius V issued his Roman Missal to displace the multiplicity of missals then in use.

During the fifteenth-century France, this sense of farce was further extended to "impromptu buffoonery interpolated by actors into the texts of religious plays". Such farces included elements of clowning, acrobatics, reversal of social roles, and indecency.

The farce developed into a dramatic category and spread quickly, in time developing into the commedia dell'arte in Italy.

In England, the farce became popular in the sixteenth century as a short dramatic work whose sole purpose was to provoke laughter. It continued to flourish as a broadly satirical comedy with absurdly laughable plots.

Although it was successful in nineteenth-century music halls and vaudeville theaters, the farce attracted even larger audiences when it became a favorite motion-picture genre with slapstick routines, mad chases, and pie-throwing scenes.

A mixture of finely chopped and seasoned foods, usually containing egg white, meat or fish, etc.; used as a stuffing or served alone.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

1. Stuffed; especially, with "forcemeat"; such as, "oysters farci".
2. Stuffed with finely ground meat; for example, "mushrooms farci".

1. Broadly, or extravagantly, humorous, ludicrous; resembling a farce.
2. Ridiculously clumsy; absurd.

In a farcical manner, or in a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously.

1. Pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
2. Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

To cram, to fill, to stuff: a place with something, or the stomach with food.

1. Stuffing which is composed of mixed ingredients.
2. To improve with stuffing, as meat for roasting.>BR? 3. To pad (a speech, for example) with jokes or witticisms.

1. Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; as opposed to tubular or hollow.
2. In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp.

1. A disease of horses and mules, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange.
2. A contagious disease of horses and mules, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements; especially, upon the head and limbs.

It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal.

To stuff; to swell; such as, the body is infarced with watery blisters.

1. Localized necrosis resulting from obstruction (plugging up) of the blood supply.
2. The formation of an infarct, an area of tissue death due to a local lack of oxygen.

For example, in a myocardial infarction there is a death of myocardial (heart muscle) tissue due to sudden (acute) deprivation of circulating blood. This is usually caused by arteriosclerosis with narrowing of the coronary arteries, the culminating event being a thrombosis ( blood clot).

Besides designating the process of forming the infarct, infarction is synonymous with the infarct itself.

The word infarction comes from the Latin infarcire meaning "to plug up, to stuff" or "to cram". It refers to the clogging, or plugging, of the artery.

Localized necrosis of lung tissue, due to obstruction of the arterial blood supply.