| weekly | 1. Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labour. 2. Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette. Once a week; by hebdomadal periods; as, each performs service weekly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| plus | 1. <mathematics> More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; opposed to minus. 2. Hence, in a literary sense, additional; real; actual. "Success goes invariably with a certain plus or positive power." (Emerson) 3. <mathematics> Plus sign, the sign (+) which denotes addition, or a positive quantity. Origin: L, more; akin to Gr, and cf. Piu, Pleonasm. (11 Mar 1998) |
| plus lens | A converging lens. Synonym: plus lens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plus strand | See: replicative form. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fluorescence plus Giemsa stain | <technique> A stain used to demonstrate sister chromatid exchange; cells are grown in 5-bromodeoxyuridine, followed by chromosome preparation, staining in Hoechst 33258, exposure to light, and staining in Giemsa; chromosomes exhibit a "harlequin" appearance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bread pill | A placebo made of bread crumbs or other inactive substances. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pill | The peel or skin. "Some be covered over with crusts, or hard pills, as the locusts." Origin: Cf. Peel skin, or Pillion. 1. To deprive of hair; to make bald. 2. To peel; to make by removing the skin. "[Jacob] pilled white streaks . . . In the rods." (Gen. Xxx. 37) Origin: Cf. L. Pilare to deprive of hair, and E. Pill, n. (above). 1. A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole. 2. Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured. <zoology> Pill beetle, any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Synonym: pill wood louse. Origin: F. Pilute, L. Pilula a pill, little ball, dim. Of L. Pila a ball. Cf. Piles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pill mass | The mixture of drug(s), excipients, diluents and binders with a suitable amount of liquid to form a plastic mass which can be rolled into a long rod and cut into the appropriate number of units for pills to be rolled from. Synonym: pill mass. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pill-rolling | A circular movement of the opposed tips of the thumb and the index finger appearing as a form of tremor in paralysis agitans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pill-rolling tremor | Resting tremor of the thumb and fingers seen in Parkinson disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pill, the | Slang term for oral contraceptive pill. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pill-willet | <zoology> The willet. Origin: So named from its note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sleeping pill | <pharmacology> Sedative medications used to promote sleep. The benzodiazepines and barbiturates are commonly used. Examples include: diazepam, flurazepam, triazolam, chlordiazepoxide, secobarbital, amobarbital, talbutal and pentobarbital. (27 Sep 1997) |