| SDS | <abbreviation> Sodium dodecyl sulfate. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| page | 1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang." (Longfellow) 2. A record; a writing; as, the page of history. 3. The type set up for printing a page. Origin: F, fr. L. Pagina; prob. Akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination. 1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. "He had two pages of honor on either hand one." (Bacon) 2. A boy child. 3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. 4. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. 5. <zoology> Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. Origin: F, fr. It. Paggio, LL. Pagius, fr. Gr, dim. Of, a boy, servant; perh. Akin to L. Puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| page kidney | <radiology> Renal compression most likely to be hypertension, mediated by renin-angiotensin system, aetiology: haematoma (posttraumatic) -- most common, cyst, tumour, on angio: stretching and splaying of intrarenal vessels (12 Dec 1998) |