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| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid; did not answer |
| IQB | individual quick blanch |
| QEW | quick early warning |
| QF | quality factor; query fever; quick freeze; relative biological effectiveness |
| QMR | Quick Medical Reference |
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| QF-DE | Quick freezing and deep etching |
| SRT | Simple Reaction Time |
| SSLP | Simple Sequence Length Polymorphism |
| SSR | Simple Sequence Repeats |
| answer | 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. "There was no voice, nor any that answered." (1 Kings xviii. 26) 2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. "Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law." (Shak) 3. To be or act in return. Hence: To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. "Do the strings answer to thy noble hand?" (Dryden) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to. "That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience." (Shak) "If this but answer to my just belief, I 'll remember you." (Shak) "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man." (Pro. Xxvii. 19) 1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc); to respond to. "She answers him as if she knew his mind." (Shak) "So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . . And him thus answered soon his bold compeer." (Milton) 3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. "No man was able to answer him a word." (Matt. Xxii. 46) "These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant." (Milton) "The reasoning was not and could not be answered." (Macaulay) 4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. "This proud king . . . Studies day and night To answer all the debts he owes unto you." (Shak) To render account to or for. "I will . . . Send him to answer thee." (Shak) To atone; to be punished for. "And grievously hath Caezar answered it." (Shak) To be opposite to; to face. "The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them." (Gilpin) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. "Money answereth all things." (Eccles. X. 19) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. "Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person." (Swift) Origin: OE. Andswerien, AS. Andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. Andswaru, n, answer. See Answer. 1. A reply to a change; a defense. "At my first answer no man stood with me." (2 Tim. Iv. 16) 2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. "A soft answer turneth away wrath." (Prov. Xv. 1) "I called him, but he gave me no answer." (Cant. V. 6) 3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. "Great the slaughter is Here made by the Roman; great the answer be Britons must take." (Shak) 4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. 5. A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Synonym: Reply, rejoinder, response. See Reply. Origin: OE. Andsware, AS. Andswaru; and against + swerian to swear, . See Anti-, and Swear, and cf. 1st un-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| quick | 1. Alive; living; animate; opposed to dead or inanimate. "Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were." (Chaucer) "The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom." (2 Tim. Iv. 1) "Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire." (Herbert) In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in some compounds, or in particular phrases. 2. Characterised by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. " A quick wit." 3. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick "Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated." (Milton) 4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. "The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended." (Latimer) 5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. "The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach." (Shak) 6. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. "To have an open ear, a quick eye." "They say that women are so quick." (Tennyson) 7. Pregnant; with child. Quick grass. <botany> A vein of ore which is productive, not barren. Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. Quick water, quicksilver water. Quick with child, pregnant with a living child. Synonym: Speedy, expeditious, swift, rapid, hasty, prompt, ready, active, brisk, nimble, fleet, alert, agile, lively, sprightly. Origin: As. Cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. Quik, D. Kwik, OHG. Quec, chec, G. Keck bold, lively, Icel. Kvikr living, Goth. Qius, Lith. Q<ymac/vas, Russ. Zhivoi, L. Vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. Bios life, Skr. Jiva living, jiv to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass, Whitlow. 1. That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. "The works . . . Are curiously hedged with quick." (Evelyn) 2. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; used figuratively. "This test nippeth, . . . This toucheth the quick." (Latimer) "How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference !" (Fuller) 3. <botany> Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Quick, Armand | <person> U.S. Physician, 1894-1978. See: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick cure resin | Autopolymerizing resin, any resin that can be polymerised by chemical catalysis rather than by the application of heat; used in dentistry for dental restoration, denture repair, and impression trays. Synonym: activated resin, cold cure resin, cold-curing resin, quick cure resin, self-curing resin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's method | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's test | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick-stop mutant | A bacterial mutant that ceases replication immediately when the temperature reaches a certain level. Compare: temperature-sensitive mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mastectomy, simple | Removal of only the breast tissue and nipple and a small portion of the overlying skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| microscope, simple | <microscopy> A microscope that has a single converging lens (or a combination of lenses that function optically as a single converging lens). Anton van leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) made good use of the simple microscope to look at the life within a drop of water, and such. The magnifying properties of lenses had been well known in ancient times (for example to the greeks and romans) but it was not until about 1600 that it became possible to make small lenses with the precision needed to make a microscope. (12 Dec 1998) |
| simple | Undivided, of a leaf, not divided into leaflets, of a hair or an inflorescence, not branched. (09 Oct 1997) |
| simple absence | A brief clouding of consciousness accompanied by the abrupt onset of 3/sec spikes and waves on EEG. Synonym: pure absence. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple anchorage | Anchorage in which the resistance to the movement of one or more teeth comes solely from resistance to tipping movement of the anchorage unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple anisocoria | A common (20% of normals) benign inequality of the pupils that may change from one hour to the next. Synonym: essential anisocoria, physiologic anisocoria, simple-central anisocoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple beam | In dentistry, a straight beam that has only two supports, one at either end. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple bone cyst | <radiology> Unicameral or solitary bone cyst, lytic, unilocular, central, meta-diaphyseal, humerus (most common site), age 0 - 10 yrs Differential diagnosis: bubbly bone lesions (12 Dec 1998) |
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