| hU | <abbreviation> Dihydrouridine. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Hu antigens | he antigens |
| huanaco | <zoology> See Guanaco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hubbard tank | <apparatus> A large tank, usually filled with warm water, used for therapeutic exercises in a program of physiotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hubner | <chemical> A mineral of brownish black colour, occurring in columnar or foliated masses. It is native manganese tungstate. Origin: After Hubner, who analyzed it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hubrecht's protochordal knot | A local thickening of the blastoderm at the cephalic end of the primitive streak of the embryo. Synonym: Hensen's knot, Hensen's node, Hubrecht's protochordal knot, primitive knot, protochordal knot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hubrecht, Ambrosius | <person> Dutch zoologist and comparative anatomist, 1853-1915. See: Hubrecht's protochordal knot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| huchen | <zoology> A large salmon (Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube. Synonym: huso, and bull trout. Origin: G. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Huckel's rule | <chemistry> The number of depolarised electrons in an aromatic ring is equal to 4n + 2 where n is zero or any positive integer; l-tyrosine, l-phenylalanine, l-tryptophan, and l-histidine (when the imidazole ring is deprotonated) obey this rule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hucker-Conn stain | <technique> A crystal violet-ammonium oxalate mixture used in Gram's stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| huckleberry | <botany> The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. Resinosa. The shrub that bears the berries. Synonym: whortleberry. Squaw huckleberry. See Deeberry. Origin: Cf. Whortleberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hudge | <chemical> An iron bucket for hoisting coal or ore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Hudson, Arthur Cyril | <person> British ophthalmologist, 1875-1962. See: Hudson-Stahli line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hudson-Stahli line | <clinical sign, ophthalmology> A brown, horizontal line across the lower third of the cornea, occasionally seen in the aged and also in association with corneal opacities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hueck's ligament | The network of fibres (pectinate ligaments) at the iridocorneal angle between the anterior chamber of the eye and the venous sinus of the sclera; it contains spaces between the fibres that are involved in drainage of the aqueous humor, and is composed of two portions: the corneoscleral part, the part attached to the sclera, and the uveal part, the part attached to the iris. Synonym: reticulum trabeculare sclerae, Gerlach's valvula, Hueck's ligament, ligamentum annulare bulbi, pectinate ligaments of iridocorneal angle, pillar of iris, trabecular meshwork, trabecular network, trabecular zone. (05 Mar 2000) |