| loxapine | <drug> This tricyclic dibenzoxazepine antipsychotic agent is used to treat schizophrenia. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| loxia | Synonym: torticollis. Origin: G. Loxos, oblique, slanting (05 Mar 2000) |
| loxodromic | Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables. <geometry> Loxodromic curve or line, a line on the surface of a sphere, which always makes an equal angle with every meridian; the rhumb line. It is the line on which a ship sails when her course is always in the direction of one and the same point of the compass. Origin: Gr. Slanting, oblique + a running, course; cf. F. Loxodromique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Loxosceles | A genus of venomous spiders, the brown spiders, marked by a fiddle-shaped pattern on the cephalothorax, and found chiefly in South America. They inflict a highly ulcerative, spreading dermal lesion at the site of the bite (loxoscelism). Important species include Loxosceles laeta, the Chilean brown spider; Loxosceles reclusus, the brown spider of North America; and Loxosceles rufipes, the Peruvian brown spider. Origin: G. Loxos, oblique, + skelos, leg (05 Mar 2000) |
| loxoscelism | A clinical illness produced by the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusus, of North America; characterised by gangrenous slough at the site of the bite, nausea, malaise, fever, haemolysis, and thrombocytopenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Loxotrema ovatum | Former name for Metagonimus yokogawai. Origin: G. Loxos, slanting, + trema, a hole; L. Ovatus, egg-shaped (05 Mar 2000) |