| gush | 1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. "He smote the rock that the waters gushed out." (Ps ixxviii 20) "A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound." (Spenser) 2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. Origin: OE. Guschen, cf. Icel. Gusa and gjsa, also D. Gucsen; perh. Akin to AS. Geotan to pour, G. Giessen, Goth. Giutan, E. Gut. Cf. Found to cast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gushing | 1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." 2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gussenbauer's suture | A figure-of-8 suture for the intestine, resembling the Czerny-Lembert suture but not including the mucous membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gussenbauer, Carl | <person> German surgeon, 1842-1903. See: Gussenbauer's suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gusset | 1. A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement. "Seam and gusset and band." (Hood) 2. Anything resembling a gusset in a garment; as: A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. 3. An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset. Origin: F. Gousset armpit, fob, gusset, dim. Of gousse pod, husk; cf. It. Guscio shell, or W. Cwysed gore, gusset. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gustard | <zoology> The great bustard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gustation | 1. The act of tasting. 2. The sense of taste. Origin: L. Gustatio, fr. Gusto, pp. -atus, to taste (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory | Relating to gustation, or taste. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory anaesthesia | Absence of the sense of taste. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gustatory bud | One of a number of flask-shaped cell nests located in the epithelium of vallate, fungiform, and foliate papillae of the tongue and also in the soft palate, epiglottis, and posterior wall of the pharynx; it consists of sustentacular, gustatory, and basal cells between which the intragemmal sensory nerve fibres terminate. Synonym: caliculus gustatorius, gustatory bud, Schwalbe's corpuscle, taste bulb, taste corpuscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory cells | Darkly staining cell's in a taste bud that appear to have extending into the gustatory pore long hair-like microvilli containing a number of closely packed microtubules; the taste cell's stand in synaptic contact with sensory nerve fibres of the facial, glossopharyngeal, or vagus nerves. Synonym: gustatory cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory hallucination | The sensation of taste in the absence of a gustatory stimulus; may be seen in temporal lobe epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory hyperesthesia | Abnormal acuteness of the sense of taste. Synonym: gustatory hyperesthesia, oxygeusia. Origin: hyper-+ G. Geusis, taste (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory lemniscus | The uncrossed secondary-sensory fibre system ascending from the rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus to the parabrachial nuclei (rostral pontine level) and directly to the thalamic gustatory nucleus (ventral postero-medial nucleus, pars parvicellularis). (05 Mar 2000) |
| gustatory nucleus | See: rhombencephalic gustatory nucleus, thalamic gustatory nucleus. (05 Mar 2000) |