| bare | 1. Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare. 2. With head uncovered; bareheaded. "When once thy foot enters the church, be bare." (Herbert) 3. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed. "Bare in thy guilt, how foul must thou appear !" (Milton) 4. Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager. "Uttering bare truth." 5. Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." 6. Threadbare; much worn. "It appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words." (Shak) 7. Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. "The bare necessaries of life." "Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth." (South) Under bare poles, having no sail set. Origin: OE. Bar, bare, AS. Baer; akin to D. & G. Baar, OHG. Par, Icel. Berr, Sw. & Dan. Bar, OSlav. Bos barefoot, Lith. Basas; cf. Skr. Bhas to shine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bare area of liver | The area on the posterior surface of the liver which is fused with the diaphragm and therefore not covered by peritoneum. Synonym: area nuda hepatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bare area of stomach | The part of posterior surface of the fundus of the stomach between the two diverging layers of the gastrophrenic ligament, that is not covered by peritoneum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bare lymphocyte syndrome | <syndrome> Absence of HLA antigens on peripheral mononuclear cells, which may result in immunodeficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anisotropic lipid | A lipid in the form of doubly refractive droplets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| annular lipid | The layer(s) of lipid bound to and/or surrounding an integral membrane protein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brain lipid | Impure cephalin possessing marked haemostatic action when locally applied. (05 Mar 2000) |
| galactose-diphosphoglycosyl carrier lipid synthetase | <enzyme> Catalyses synthesis of gcl-pp-gal from udp gal and p-gcl; also catalyses exchange between the uridylyl moiety of udpgal and ump Registry number: EC 2.4.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| pneumonia, lipid | Pneumonia due to aspiration or inhalation of various oily or fatty substances. (12 Dec 1998) |
| neutral lipid storage disease | <syndrome> Congenital ichthyosis, leukocyte vacuoles, and variable involvement of other organ systems. Synonym: neutral lipid storage disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disease, lipid storage | A series of disorders due to inborn errors in lipid metabolism resulting in the abnormal accumulation of lipids in the wrong places (Examples include Gaucher, Fabry and Niemann-Pick diseases and metachromatic leukodystrophy). (12 Dec 1998) |
| inositol lipid | A membrane-anchored phospholipid that transduces hormonal signals by stimulating the release of any of several chemical messengers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| isotropic lipid | A lipid occurring in the form of singly refractive droplets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lipid | <chemical> Any of a heterogeneous group of flats and fatlike substances characterised by being water insoluble and being extractable by nonpolar (or fat) solvents such as alcohol, ether, chloroform, benzene, etc. All contain as a major constituent aliphatic hydrocarbons. The lipids, which are easily stored in the body, serve as a source of fuel, are an important constituent of cell structure and serve other biological functions. Lipids may be considered to include fatty acids, neutral fats, waxes and steroids. Compound lipids comprise the glycolipids, lipoproteins and phospholipids. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lipid A | The lipid associated with polysaccharide in the lipopolysaccharide of gram-negative bacterial cell walls. (18 Nov 1997) |