| basket | 1. A vessel made of osiers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . Woven of the flexile willow." 2. The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches. 3. The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital. 4. The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. Basket fish, a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, especially. T. Ephemeraeformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females. Origin: Of unknown origin. The modern Celtic words seem to be from the English. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| basket cell | Cerebellar neurons with many small dendritic branches that enclose the cell bodies of adjacent Purkinje cells in a basket like array. (18 Nov 1997) |
| stone basket | An instrument passed through an endoscope to capture and extract urinary calculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower basket of Bochdalek | Part of the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle protruding through Luschka's foramen and resting on the dorsal surface of the glossopharyngeal nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Adams-Stokes disease | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Adams-Stokes syncope | Syncope due to complete atrioventricular block. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adams-stokes syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Cheyne-Stokes psychosis | A mental state characterised by anxiety and restlessness, accompanying Cheyne-Stokes respiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cheyne-stokes respiration | A pattern of breathing with a gradual increase in the depth of respiration to a maximum, followed by a progressive decrease in the depth of respiration resulting in apnoea, characteristically seen in coma associated with severe neurological insult. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Gritti-Stokes amputation | Supracondylar amputation of the femur, the patella being preserved and applied to the end of the bone, its articular cartilage being removed so as to obtain union. Synonym: Gritti's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Morgagni-Adams-Stokes syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes-Adams disease | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes-Adams syndrome | <syndrome> Transient asystole or ventricular fibrillation in the presence of atrioventricular block. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Stokes amputation | A modification of the Gritti-Stokes amputation in that the line of section of the femur is slightly higher. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stokes' law | A muscle lying above an inflamed mucous or serous membrane is frequently the seat of paralysis, a relationship of the rate of fall of a small sphere in a viscous fluid; applicable to centrifugation of macromolecules, the wavelength of light emitted by a fluorescent material is longer than that of the radiation used to excite the fluorescence. (05 Mar 2000) |