| adapter | 1. One who adapts. 2. <chemistry> A connecting tube; an adopter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Penrose drain | A soft tube-shaped rubber drain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cigarette drain | A wick of gauze wrapped in rubber tissue, providing capillary drainage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mikulicz' drain | A drain made of several strings of gauze held together by a single layer of gauze. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stab drain | A drain passed into a cavity through a puncture made at a dependent part away from the wound of operation, designed to prevent infection of the wound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sump drain | A drain consisting of an outer tube with a smaller tube within it which is attached to a suction pump; the outer tube has multiple perforations that allow fluid and air to pass into its interior and be carried away through the suction tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drain | 1. To draw off fluid from a cavity as it forms. 2. A device, usually in the shape of a tube or wick, for removing fluid as it collects in a cavity, especially a wound cavity. Origin: A. S. Drehnian, to draw off (05 Mar 2000) |
| drain-trap stomach | water-trap stomach |
| baby bottle syndrome | Rampant caries of the primary dentition associated with the habitual use, after age 1, of a baby bottle as an aid for sleeping. Synonym: baby bottle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bottle | 1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids. 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. 3. Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Bottle ale, bottled ale. Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the interior of bottles. <marine biology> Bottle fish, a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx ampullaceus), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won size. Bottle flower. <botany> An Australian tree (Sterculia rupestris), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen, trunk. Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber nipple (generally with an intervening tubve), used in feeding infants. Origin: OE. Bote, botelle, OF. Botel, bouteille, F. Bouteille, fr. LL. Buticula, dim. Of butis, buttis, butta, flask. Cf. Butt a cask. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bottle cell | <embryology> The first cells to migrate inwards at the blastopore during amphibian gastrulation. The neck of the bottle is at the outer surface of the embryo. (18 Nov 1997) |
| bottle feeding | Use of nursing bottles for feeding. Applies to humans and animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bottle-nose | <zoology> 1. A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, as Delphinus Tursio and Lagenorhyncus leucopleurus, of Europe. 2. The puffin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Mariotte bottle | A stoppered bottle with bottom outlet, used as a reservoir for constant infusions; air enters only by bubbling through a tube extending down through the stopper almost to the bottom; a partial vacuum thus supports the variable height of liquid above the air inlet, providing a constant gravity head for outflow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wash-bottle | A bottle with a tube passing to the bottom, through which gases are forced into water to purify them, a stoppered bottle with two tubes, one ending above and the other below a fluid, so that air blowing through the short tube forces liquid in a small stream from the free end of the long one; used for washing chemical apparatus. (05 Mar 2000) |