| grape | 1. <botany> A well-known edible berry growing in pendent clusters or bunches on the grapevine. The berries are smooth-skinned, have a juicy pulp, and are cultivated in great quantities for table use and for making wine and raisins. 2. <botany> The plant which bears this fruit; the grapevine. 3. A mangy tumour on the leg of a horse. 4. Grapeshot. Grape borer. <zoology> A minute black weevil (Craponius inaequalis) which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes. <botany> Grape flower, or Grape hyacinth, the larva of the grape moth. Soar grapes, things which persons affect to despise because they can not possess them; in allusion to aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes. Origin: OF. Grape, crape, bunch or cluster of grapes, F. Grappe, akin to F. Grappin grapnel, hook; fr. OHG. Chrapfo hook, G. Krapfen, akin to E. Cramp. The sense seems to have come from the idea of clutching. Cf. Agraffe, Cramp, Grapnel, Grapple. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grape endings | An autodescriptive term applied to synaptic terminals at the ends of short, stalklike axon branches. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grape fruit | The shaddock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grape mole | <gynaecology, oncology, tumour> A relatively rare mass or tumour that can form within the uterus at the beginning of a pregnancy. The cause of hydatidiform mole is unknown. Symptoms include vaginal bleeding, uterine growth, nausea and vomiting. Some hydatidiform moles may become malignant (cancerous) where they are referred to as a choriocarcinoma. Incidence: 1 in 1,500 births. (02 Jan 1998) |
| grape sugar | See: d-glucose. Invert sugar, a mixture of equal parts of d-glucose and d-fructose produced by hydrolysis of sucrose (inversion). (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea grape | 1. <botany> The gulf weed. See Gulf. A shrubby plant (Coccoloba uvifera) growing on the sandy shores of tropical America, somewhat resembling the grapevine. 2. <zoology> The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| isabella grape | <botany> A favorite sweet American grape of a purple colour. See Fox grape, under Fox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oregon grape | <botany> An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| appetite juice | Gastric juice secreted upon the sight or smell of food and at the time of eating, influenced by the attractiveness of the food and delight in the food ingested; a conditioned reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cancer juice | Turbid, white to yellow-white or gray-white fluid (chiefly plasma) that may be expressed from certain forms of malignant neoplastic tissue, and is likely to contain neoplastic cells and debris; formed especially in relatively large, degenerating, partly necrotic foci of rapidly growing neoplastic tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pancreatic juice | The liquid secretion of the pancreas, which is discharged into the duodenum. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gastric juice | The liquid secretion of the stomach mucosa consisting of hydrochloric acid (gastric acid), pepsinogen, intrinsic factor, gastrin, mucus, and the bicarbonate ion (bicarbonates). (12 Dec 1998) |
| glove juice test | <investigation> A test of how effective a particular antimicrobial surgical hand scrub is at disinfecting. (09 Oct 1997) |
| cherry juice | The juice expressed from the fresh ripe fruit of Prunus cerasus, containing not less than 1.0% of malic acid; used as a flavoring agent, and as a vehicle for cough syrups and other preparations for oral administrations. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prune-juice expectoration | A thin reddish expectoration, characteristic of necrosis of lung tissue, usually by infection; due to haemorrhage caused by destruction of the lung parenchyma; sometimes seen with lung tumours. Synonym: prune-juice expectoration. (05 Mar 2000) |