| grateful med | A microcomputer-based software package providing a user-friendly interface to the medlars system of the national library of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| india | A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colours. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China ink. The true India ink is sepia. See Sepia. India matting, floor matting made in China, India, etc, from grass and reeds; also called Canton, or China, matting. India paper, a variety of Chinese paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing from engravings, woodcuts, etc. India proof, a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper. India rubber. See Caoutchouc. <botany> India-rubber tree, any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves. See: Indian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| India ink capsule stain | <technique> A negative stain for crystal bacteria in which cells appear purple (Gram's crystal violet) and the capsules appear clear against a dark background. (05 Mar 2000) |
| van der Waals' forces | First postulated by van der Waals in 1873 to explain deviations from ideal gas behaviour seen in real gases; the attractive force's between atoms or molecules other than electrostatic (ionic), covalent (sharing of electrons), or hydrogen bonding (sharing a proton); generally ascribed to dipolar and dispersion effects, π-electrons, etc.; these relatively nondescript force's contribute to the mutual attraction of organic molecules. Synonym: London forces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| reciprocal forces | In dentistry, force's whereby the resistance of one or more teeth is utilised to move one or more opposing teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| london dispersion forces | <chemistry> The forces that exist in nonpolar molecules that involve an accidental dipole that induces a momentary dipole in a neighbor. (09 Jan 1998) |
| London forces | First postulated by van der Waals in 1873 to explain deviations from ideal gas behaviour seen in real gases; the attractive force's between atoms or molecules other than electrostatic (ionic), covalent (sharing of electrons), or hydrogen bonding (sharing a proton); generally ascribed to dipolar and dispersion effects, π-electrons, etc.; these relatively nondescript force's contribute to the mutual attraction of organic molecules. Synonym: London forces. (05 Mar 2000) |
| armed macrophage | A mature macrophage, in an active metabolic state, that is cytotoxic to tumour/target cells, usually following exposure to certain cytokines. Synonym: armed macrophage. (05 Mar 2000) |
| armed rostellum | Rostellum with one or more rows of hooks. (05 Mar 2000) |
| armed tapeworm | The pork tapeworm (Taenia solium). Contracted from undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm). Can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the measly tapeworm. (12 Dec 1998) |
| doubly armed suture | A suture with a needle attached at both ends. Synonym: cobbler's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tapeworm, armed | See Taenia solium. (12 Dec 1998) |