| cope | 1. The upper half of a flask in the casting art; hence applicable to the upper or cavity side of a denture flask. 2. An act that enables one to adjust to the environmental circumstances. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Cope's clamp | A clamp used in excision of colon and rectum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cope, Sir Vincent | <person> English surgeon, 1881-1974. See: Cope's clamp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| copepod | Any member of the order Copepoda. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Copepoda | An order of abundant, free-living, freshwater and marine crustaceans of basic importance in the aquatic food chain in both the marine and freshwater environments; some species are commonly called water fleas. Some are ectoparasites of both cold-blooded and warm-blooded aquatic vertebrates; the parasitic copepods of fish and whales are often highly modified for deep penetration of the skin or for adherence by suckers and hooks (e.g., the fish lice, Argulus). Certain copepods (Cyclops, Diaptomus) are important as intermediate hosts of the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum and of the nematode Dracunculus medinensis. Origin: G. Kope, an oar, + pous (pod-), a foot (05 Mar 2000) |