| CR | calculation rate; calculus removed; calorie-restricted; cardiac rehabilitation; cardiac resuscitatio... |
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| TOP | termination of pregnancy; topoisomerase |
| top | topical |
| IQB | individual quick blanch |
| QEW | quick early warning |
| QMR | Quick Medical Reference |
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| QF-DE | Quick freezing and deep etching |
| BBTV | Banana bunchy top virus |
| BCTV | Beet curly top virus |
| TOP | termination of pregnancy |
| top | 1. To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; chiefly used in the past participle. "Like moving mountains topped with snow." (Waller) "A mount Of alabaster, topped with golden spires." (Milton) 2. To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass. "Topping all others in boasting." (Shak) "Edmund the base shall top the legitimate." (Shak) 3. To rise to the top of; to go over the top of. "But wind about till thou hast topped the hill." (Denham) 4. To take off the or upper part of; to crop. "Top your rose trees a little with your knife." (Evelyn) 5. To perform eminently, or better than before. "From endeavoring universally to top their parts, they will go universally beyond them." (Jeffrey) 6. To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other. To top off, to complete by putting on, or finishing, the top or uppermost part of; as, to top off a stack of hay; hence, to complete; to finish; to adorn. 1. A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip. 2. A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting. Origin: CF. OD. Dop, top, OHG, MNG, & dial. G. Topf; perhaps akin to G. Topf a pot. 1. The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground. "The star that bids the shepherd fold, Now the top of heaven doth hold." (Milton) 2. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit. "The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work." (Pope) 3. The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. "And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty." (Shak) 4. The chief person; the most prominent one. "Other . . . Aspired to be the top of zealots." (Milton) 5. The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. "From top to toe" "All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall On her ungrateful top !" (Shak) 6. The head, or upper part, of a plant. "The buds . . . Are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads." (I. Watts) 7. A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft. 8. A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out. 9. Eve; verge; point. "He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine." 10. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. Top is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound words, usually self-explaining; as, top stone, or topstone; top-boots, or top boots; top soil, or top-soil. Top and but, a phrase used to denote a method of working long tapering planks by bringing the but of one plank to the top of the other to make up a constant breadth in two layers. <zoology> Top minnow, a small viviparous fresh water fish (Gambusia patruelis) abundant in the Southern United States. Also applied to other similar species. Origin: AS. Top; akin to OFries. Top a tuft, D. Top top, OHG. Zopf end, tip, tuft of hair, G. Zopf tuft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree, Icel. Toppr a tuft of hair, crest, top, Dan. Top, Sw. Topp pinnacle, top; of uncertain origin. Cf. Tuft. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| top-shaped | <botany> Having the shape of a top; cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| top-shell | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of marine top_shaped shells of the genus Thochus, or family Trochidae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| turban-top | <botany> A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flat top waves | Activity in the electroencephalogram having a pattern suggesting a flat top; these wave's are often found in temporal lobe discharges. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick | 1. Alive; living; animate; opposed to dead or inanimate. "Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were." (Chaucer) "The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom." (2 Tim. Iv. 1) "Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire." (Herbert) In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in some compounds, or in particular phrases. 2. Characterised by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. " A quick wit." 3. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick "Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated." (Milton) 4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. "The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended." (Latimer) 5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. "The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach." (Shak) 6. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. "To have an open ear, a quick eye." "They say that women are so quick." (Tennyson) 7. Pregnant; with child. Quick grass. <botany> A vein of ore which is productive, not barren. Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. Quick water, quicksilver water. Quick with child, pregnant with a living child. Synonym: Speedy, expeditious, swift, rapid, hasty, prompt, ready, active, brisk, nimble, fleet, alert, agile, lively, sprightly. Origin: As. Cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. Quik, D. Kwik, OHG. Quec, chec, G. Keck bold, lively, Icel. Kvikr living, Goth. Qius, Lith. Q<ymac/vas, Russ. Zhivoi, L. Vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. Bios life, Skr. Jiva living, jiv to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass, Whitlow. 1. That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. "The works . . . Are curiously hedged with quick." (Evelyn) 2. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; used figuratively. "This test nippeth, . . . This toucheth the quick." (Latimer) "How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference !" (Fuller) 3. <botany> Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Quick, Armand | <person> U.S. Physician, 1894-1978. See: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick cure resin | Autopolymerizing resin, any resin that can be polymerised by chemical catalysis rather than by the application of heat; used in dentistry for dental restoration, denture repair, and impression trays. Synonym: activated resin, cold cure resin, cold-curing resin, quick cure resin, self-curing resin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's method | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's test | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick-stop mutant | A bacterial mutant that ceases replication immediately when the temperature reaches a certain level. Compare: temperature-sensitive mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
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