| gouge | 1. A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood. 2. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve. 3. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. From leather, paper, etc. 4. <chemical> Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein. 5. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge. 6. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge. Origin: F. Gouge. LL. Gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. Gubia bow, gubioa throat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gouger | <zoology> See Plum Gouger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gougerot and Blum disease | An eruption comprised of lichenoid papules variously pigmented from the haemosiderin of the associated purpura; found on the legs, usually in men over 40 years of age. Synonym: Gougerot and Blum disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gougerot, Henri | <person> French physician, 1881-1955. See: Gougerot and Blum disease, Gougerot-Sjogren disease, Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome | Discrete and confluent gray-brown papules of the anterior and posterior mid-chest, spreading gradually; Malassezia furfur has been found in the keratin layer. Synonym: Gougerot-Carteaud syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gougerot-Sjogren disease | <syndrome> An immunologic disorder characterised by progressive destruction of the exocrine glands (sweat glands, lacrimal glands, salivary glands). Symptoms include dry eyes, dry mouth, persistent cough (dry airways) and lack of saliva. Approximately 30% also have rheumatoid arthritis. Kidney involvement (kidney dysfunction) is seen in 40% of patients. Sjogren's syndrome affects predominately females in their thirties to forties. The lungs, peripheral nerves, blood vessels (vasculitis) and thyroid may also be affected. (27 Sep 1997) |
| gougeshell | <zoology> A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |