| Ag | 1. Symbol for silver (argentum). 2. <abbreviation> Antigen. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Ag-AS stain | <technique> A stain for the acid protein component of nucleolar regions which are active or which were transcriptionally active in the preceding interphase; uses silver nitrate, ammoniacal silver, and formalin. Synonym: Ag-AS stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agalactia | <endocrinology> The absence or failure of the secretion of milk, also called agalactosis. Origin: Gr. Gala = milk (18 Nov 1997) |
| agalactorrhoea | Absence of the secretion or flow of breast milk. Origin: G. A-priv. + gala, milk, + rhoia, a flow (05 Mar 2000) |
| agalactosis | <endocrinology> The absence or failure of the secretion of milk, also called agalactosis. Origin: Gr. Gala = milk (18 Nov 1997) |
| agalactous | Relating to agalactia, or to the diminution or absence of breast milk. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agalaxy | <medicine> Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth. Origin: Gr.; priv. +, milk. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agallochum | A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species. Origin: Gr, of Eastern origin: cf. Skr. Aguru, Heb. Pl. Ahalim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agalmatolite | <chemical> A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish colour, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite. Origin: Gr, image, statue: cf. F. Agalmatolithe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agama | Origin: From the Caribbean name of a species of lizard. <zoology> A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agameon | <biology> An organism that reproduces asexually only, without producing gametes (sperm or eggs). (05 Feb 1998) |
| agamete | A protozoan organism produced by asexual multiple fission. See: schizogony. Origin: G. A-priv. + gametes, husband (05 Mar 2000) |
| agami | Origin: F. Agex, fr. The native name. <ornithology> A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agamic | <biology> Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs. Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous. Origin: Agamous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agammaglobulinaemia | <immunology> A rare disease where the body is unable to produce immune antibodies due to the lack of gamma globulin, a type of immunoglobulin, in the blood. The disease can be acquired or inherited as an X-linked recessive genetic disease. Origin: Gr. Haima = blood (18 Nov 1997) |