| RES | <abbreviation> Reticuloendothelial system. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pH-stat | A device for continuously sensing the pH of a solution and automatically adding acid or alkali as necessary to keep the pH constant; used to follow the time course of reactions that liberate an acid or alkali. (05 Mar 2000) |
| STAT | A common medical abbreviation which is used to imply urgent or rush. It is derived from a latin word statim which means immediately. (12 Dec 1998) |
| wood-note | A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." (Milton) Origin: Wood, n. + note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| note | 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. "Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession." (Hooker) "She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life a tough life and a vigorous." (J. H. Newman) "What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !" (Mrs. Humphry Ward) 2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. "The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations." (Felton) 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 5. Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings. 6. A short informal letter; a billet. 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. "Here is now the smith's note for shoeing." (Shak) 10. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. A key of the piano or organ. "The wakeful bird . . . Tunes her nocturnal note." (Milton) "That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann." (W. Pater) 11. Observation; notice; heed. "Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence." (Shak) 12. Notification; information; intelligence. "The king . . . Shall have note of this." (Shak) 13. State of being under observation. "Small matters . . . Continually in use and in note." (Bacon) 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. "There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold." (Prescott) 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. Note of hand, a promissory note. Origin: F. Note, L. Nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| note blindness | Loss of the ability to read music. (27 Sep 1997) |