| El Tor vibrio | A bacterium regarded as a biovar of vibrio cholerae. It was originally isolated from six pilgrims who died of dysentery or gangrene of the colon at the Tor quarantine station on the Sinai Peninsula. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| ELA | <pharmacology> An application submitted concurrently with the Product License Application. The Establishment Licence Application provides data demonstrating the acceptability of the facilities and personnel for manufacturing of protein pharmaceuticals. Acronym: ELA (14 Nov 1997) |
| elaborate | 1. To produce with labour "They in full joy elaborate a sigh," (Young) 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labour and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. "The sap is . . . Still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant." (Arbuthnot) Origin: Elaborated; Elaborating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaboration | 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labour; improvement by successive operations; refinement. 2. <physiology> The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. Origin: L. Elaboratio: cf. F. Elaboration. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaborative | Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labour and minute attention to details. <psychology> Elaborative faculty, the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeagnus | <botany> A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A Boeotian marsh plant; olive + sacred, pure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeis | <botany> A genus of palms. Elaeis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Olive tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeolite | <chemical> A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish colour. Elaeolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterised by the presence of elaeolite. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Elaeophora schneideri | The bloodworm of sheep; a species of nematodes causing filarial dermatosis. Origin: Mod. L. Elaea, fr. G. Elaia, olive, + agnos, sheep, + phoros, to bear (05 Mar 2000) |
| elaeoptene | <chemistry> The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. Alternative forms: elaoptene. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil + winged, fleeting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidate | <chemistry> A salt of elaidic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidic | Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. <chemistry> Elaidic acid, a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid. Origin: Cf. F. Elaidique. See Elaine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidic acid | CH3(CH2)7CH==CH(CH2)7COOH; trans-9-octadecenoic acid;an unsaturated monobasic trans-isomer of oleic acid; found in ruminant fats. Compare: oleic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elaidin | <chemistry> A solid isomeric modification of olein. Origin: Cf. F. Elaidine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elain | <chemistry> Same as Olein. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil, from the olive tree: cf. F. Elaine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |