| SFV | Semliki Forest Virus |
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| KFD | Kyasanur forest disease |
| SFV | Semliki Forest virus; shipping fever virus; Shope fibroma virus; squirrel fibroma virus |
| SFV | Semiliki Forest virus |
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| forest | 1. <ecology> An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never been cultivated. 2. A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of its own. 3. <zoology> One of numerous species of blood-sucking flies, of the family Tabanidae, which attack both men and beasts. See Horse fly. A fly of the genus Hippobosca, especially. H. Equina. See Horse tick. Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest. Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc, in forests. Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit tree. Origin: OF. Forest, F. Foret, LL. Forestis, also, forestus, forestum, foresta, prop, open ground reserved for the chase, fr. L. Foris, foras, out of doors. (04 Apr 1998) |
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| forest health | A condition of ecosystem sustainability and attainment of management objectives for a given forest area. Usually considered to include green trees, snags, resilient stands growing at a moderate rate, and endemic levels of insects and disease. Natural processes still function or are duplicated through management intervention. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forest plan | The document that sets goals, objectives, desired future condition, standards and guidelines, and overall programmatic direction for a National Forest. Required by the National Forest Management act of 1976. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forest residue | Material not harvested or removed from logging sites in commercial hardwood and softwood stands as well as material resulting from forest management operations such as precommercial thinnings and removal of dead and dying trees. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forest yaws | A form of New World cutaneous leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania braziliensis guyanensis in the Amazon delta; a small proportion of cases are said to metastasize to the nasal mucosa with espundia-like involvement. Synonym: bosch yaws, bush yaws, forest yaws. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forestall | 1. To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate. "What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?" (Milton) 2. To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance. "An ugly serpent which forestalled their way." (Fairfax) "But evermore those damsels did forestall Their furious encounter." (Spenser) "To be forestalled ere we come to fall." (Shak) "Habit is a forestalled and obstinate judge." (Rush) 3. To deprive; with of. "All the better; may This night forestall him of the coming day!" (Shak) 4. To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention of selling it again at a higher price; to dissuade persons from bringing their goods or provisions there; or to persuade them to enhance the price when there. This was an offense at law in England until 1844. Synonym: To anticipate, monopolize, engross. Origin: OE. Forstallen to stop, to obstruct; to stop (goods) on the way to the market by buying them beforehand, from forstal obstruction, AS. Forsteal, foresteall, prop, a placing one's self before another. See Fore, and Stall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forested areas or land | Any land that is capable of producing or has produced forest growth or, if lacking forest growth, has evidence of a former forest and is not now in other use. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forester | 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game. 2. An inhabitant of a forest. 3. A forest tree. 4. <entomology> A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. Octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. Origin: F. Forestier, LL. Forestarius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forestick | Front stick of a hearth fire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| forestier's disease | <disease> A form of degenerative arthritis characteristically associated with flowing calcification along the sides of the vertebrae of the spine and commonly with inflammation (tendinitis) and calcification of the tendons at their attachments points to bone. Because areas of the spine and tendons can become inflamed, antiinflammatory medications (NSAIDs), such ibuprofen, can be helpful in both relieving pain and inflammation. Also called diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH). (12 Dec 1998) |
| Forestier, Jacques | <person> French rheumatologist, *1890. See: Forestier's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forestomach | A dilation that occasionally occurs in the oesophagus near the stomach. Synonym: forestomach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| forestry | The science of developing, caring for, or cultivating forests. (12 Dec 1998) |
| commercial forest land | Forested land which is capable of producing new growth at a minimum rate of 20 cubic feet per acre/per year, excluding lands withdrawn from timber production by statute or administrative regulation. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| conventional forest products | Any commercial roundwood product (boards, dimension lumber, pulp and paper products) except fuelwood. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Semliki forest virus | <virology> Enveloped virus of the alphavirus group of Togaviridae. First isolated from mosquitoes in the Semliki Forest in Uganda, not known to cause any illness. The synthesis and export of its three spike glycoproteins, via the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi complex, have been used as a model for the synthesis and export of plasma membrane proteins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| kyasanur forest disease | Tick-borne flavivirus infection occurring in the kyasanur forest in india. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Kyasanur Forest disease virus | A group B arbovirus, in the family Flaviviridae, isolated from monkeys in India and capable of causing Kyasanur Forest disease in humans; the virus is spread by monkeys and birds having mild infections; the vectors are probably species of the tick Haemaphysalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| late-successional forest | Forest seral stages which include mature and old- growth age classes. (05 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms :
| Forestier's disease |
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. (DISH, Ankylosing hyperostosis). Florid new bone formation at entheses results in spinal stiffness. May be confused with ankylosing spondylitis.
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| forest y. |
pian bois.
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| forest-spring e. |
tick-borne e.
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| Forestier d. |
hyperostosis of the anterolateral vertebral column, especially in the thoracic region.
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| forestomach |
any of the first three stomachs of a ruminant, i.e., the rumen, reticulum, or omasum.
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| forest | the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
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| forest | land that is covered with trees and shrubs |
| forest | establish a forest on previously unforested land |
| forest | an uncontrolled fire in a wooded area |
| forest | an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest |
| forest | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope |
| forest | one of a class of woodland deities |
| forest | tall tree of Queensland and New South Wales and Victoria |
| forest | larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a carpet rather than a tent |
| forest | the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) |
| forest | keep from happening or arising |
| forest | act in advance of |
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