| dom | <chemical> 2,5-dimethoxy-alpha,4-dimethylbenzeneethanamine. A psychedelic phenylisopropylamine derivative whose mood-altering effects and mechanism of action may be similar to those of lsd. Pharmacological action: hallucinogens, serotonin agonists. Chemical name: Benzeneethanamine, 2,5-dimethoxy-alpha,4-dimethyl- (12 Dec 1998) |
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| domable | Capable of being tamed; tamable. Origin: L. Domabilis, fr. Domare to tame. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domableness | Tamableness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domage | 1. Damage; hurt. 2. Subjugation. See: Damage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domain | <molecular biology> Used to describe a part of a molecule or structure that shares common physico chemical features, for example hydrophobic, polar, globular, helical domains or properties for example DNA binding domain, ATP binding domain. (18 Nov 1997) |
| domains | 1. Homologous units of approximately 110 to 120 amino acids each which comprise the light and heavy chains of the immunoglobulin molecule and which serve specific functions. The light chain has two domains's, one in the variable region and one in the constant region of the chain; the heavy chain has four to five domains's, depending upon the class of immunoglobulin, one in the variable region and the remaining ones in the constant region. 2. A region of a protein having some distinctive physical feature or role. Origin: Fr. Domaine, fr. L. Dominium, property, dominion (05 Mar 2000) |
| domal | <astronomy> Pertaining to a house. Origin: L. Domus house. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domanial | Of or relating to a domain or to domains. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domatia | <botany> Small structures on the lower surface of a leaf in some woody dicotyledons, usually consisting of depressions, partly enclosed by leaf tissue or hairs, located in the axils of the primary veins. Sing. Domatium. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Dombrock blood group | See Blood Groups appendix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dome | 1. A building; a house; an edifice; used chiefly in poetry. "Approach the dome, the social banquet share." (Pope) 2. A cupola formed on a large scale. "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola." 3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. 4. <chemistry> A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form. If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome. Origin: F. Dome, It. Duomo, fr. L. Domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. House, to build, and E. Timber. See Timber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dome cell | One of the rounded surface cell's of the periderm layer of the foetal epidermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| domesday | A day of judgment. See Doomsday. Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. Alternative forms: Doomsday Book. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic | 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. "His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong." (Macaulay) 4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. 3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. 4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. 5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. Origin: L. Domesticus, fr. Domus use: cf. F. Domestique. See 1st Dome. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic soap | Soap made with sodium hydroxide and a purified animal fat consisting chiefly of stearin; used in pharmacy in the preparation of certain liniments. Synonym: curd soap, domestic soap, tallow soap. (05 Mar 2000) |