| dot | A small spot. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| dot blot | <molecular biology, procedure> Method for detecting a specific protein or message. A spot of solution is dotted onto nitrocellulose paper, a specific antibody or probe is allowed to bind and the presence of bound antibody/probe then shown by using a peroxidase coupled second antibody, as in Western blotting or by other visualisation methods. (18 Nov 1997) |
| dotage | The deterioration of previously intact mental powers, common in old age. Synonym: dotardness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dotal | Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it. Origin: L. Dotalis, fr. Dos, dotis, dowry: cf. F. Dotal. See Dot dowry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dotardness | The deterioration of previously intact mental powers, common in old age. Synonym: dotardness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dotation | 1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Origin: LL. Dotatio, fr. L. Dotare to endow, fr. Dos, dotis, dower: cf. F. Dotation. See Dot dowry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dote | 1. To act foolishly. "He wol make him doten anon right." (Chaucer) 2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. "Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell." (Dryden) "He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died." (South) 3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. "Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote." (Shak) "What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love." (Pope) Origin: OE. Doten; akin to OD. Doten, D. Dutten, to doze, Icel. Dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. Tzen to keep still: cf. F. Doter, OF. Radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source Alternative forms: doat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| doted | 1. Stupid; foolish. "Senseless speech and doted ignorance." (Spenser) 2. Half-rotten; as, doted wood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dothiepin | <chemical> 3-dibenzo(b,e)thiepin-11(6h)-ylidene-n,n-dimethyl-1-propanamine. A tricyclic antidepressant with some tranquillising action. Pharmacological action: adrenergic uptake inhibitors, antidepressive agents, tricyclic. Chemical name: 1-Propanamine, 3-dibenzo(b,e)thiepin-11(6H)-ylidene-N,N-dimethyl- (12 Dec 1998) |
| dottard | An old, decayed tree. Origin: For Dotard ?. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dotted tongue | One in which each separate papilla is capped with a whitish deposit. Synonym: stippled tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dotterel | Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Origin: Cf. Dottard. 1. <zoology> A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, or Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler. "In catching of dotterels we see how the foolish bird playeth the ape in gestures." (Bacon) The ringed dotterel (or ring plover) is Charadrius hiaticula. 2. A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull. Origin: From Dote. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dottrel | <zoology> See Dotterel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| black-dot ringworm | Tinea capitis due most commonly to Trichophyton tonsurans or T. Violaceum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| blue dot sign | <clinical sign> A blue or black spot visible beneath the skin on the cranial aspect of testis or epididymis. This is a torsed testicular appendage and is usually quite tender. (05 Mar 2000) |
| map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy | Fingerprint dystrophy accompanied by map-like patterns and microcystic epithelial inclusions. (05 Mar 2000) |