| ELA | <pharmacology> An application submitted concurrently with the Product License Application. The Establishment Licence Application provides data demonstrating the acceptability of the facilities and personnel for manufacturing of protein pharmaceuticals. Acronym: ELA (14 Nov 1997) |
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| elaborate | 1. To produce with labour "They in full joy elaborate a sigh," (Young) 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labour and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. "The sap is . . . Still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant." (Arbuthnot) Origin: Elaborated; Elaborating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaboration | 1. The act or process of producing or refining with labour; improvement by successive operations; refinement. 2. <physiology> The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues. Origin: L. Elaboratio: cf. F. Elaboration. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaborative | Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labour and minute attention to details. <psychology> Elaborative faculty, the intellectual power of discerning relations and of viewing objects by means of, or in, relations; the discursive faculty; thought. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeagnus | <botany> A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A Boeotian marsh plant; olive + sacred, pure. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeis | <botany> A genus of palms. Elaeis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Olive tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaeolite | <chemical> A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish colour. Elaeolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterised by the presence of elaeolite. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Elaeophora schneideri | The bloodworm of sheep; a species of nematodes causing filarial dermatosis. Origin: Mod. L. Elaea, fr. G. Elaia, olive, + agnos, sheep, + phoros, to bear (05 Mar 2000) |
| elaeoptene | <chemistry> The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. Alternative forms: elaoptene. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil + winged, fleeting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidate | <chemistry> A salt of elaidic acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidic | Relating to oleic acid, or elaine. <chemistry> Elaidic acid, a fatty acid isomeric with oleic acid, and obtained from it by the action of nitrous acid. Origin: Cf. F. Elaidique. See Elaine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaidic acid | CH3(CH2)7CH==CH(CH2)7COOH; trans-9-octadecenoic acid;an unsaturated monobasic trans-isomer of oleic acid; found in ruminant fats. Compare: oleic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elaidin | <chemistry> A solid isomeric modification of olein. Origin: Cf. F. Elaidine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elain | <chemistry> Same as Olein. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil, from the olive tree: cf. F. Elaine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| elaiodic | <chemistry> Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. Origin: Gr. Olive oil, oil + form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |