| gr | <botany> A fruit characteristic of grasses (such as rice), pollen grain, a microspore of a seed plant, or the partially developed gametophyte formed from it. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| gr/scf | Grains of pollutant per standard cubic foot of gas. A measure of dust particles in a gas stream following standard DEQ methods. (05 Dec 1998) |
| Graaf, Regnier de | <person> B. Schoonhaven, Holland, July 30th , 1641. Was a student of Francis de la Boe Sylvius and of Diemerbroeck in Leyden. Became a distinguished Anatomist and later a Physician with an interest in physiology and histopathology in Delft. D. Delft, 1673. See: Graafian Follicles - folliculus oophorus vesiculosus. Lived: 1641-1673. (05 Dec 1998) |
| graafian | <anatomy> Pertaining to, or discovered by, Regnier de Graaf, a Dutch physician. Graafian follicles or vesicles, small cavities in which the ova are developed in the ovaries of mammals, and by the bursting of which they are discharged. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Graafian follicle | <gynaecology> Final stage in the differentiation of follicles in the mammalian ovary. Consists of a spherical fluid filled blister on the surface of the ovary that bursts at ovulation to release the oocyte. (18 Nov 1997) |
| grace | 1. The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred. "To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee." (Milton) 2. The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. "And if by grace, then is it no more of works." (Rom. Xi. 6) "My grace is sufficicnt for thee." (2 Cor. Xii. 9) "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." (Rom. V. 20) "By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand." (Rom. V.2) 3. The prerogative of mercy execised by the executive, as pardon. The same prerogative when exercised in the form of equitable relief through chancery. 4. Fortune; luck; used commonly with hard or sorry when it means misfortune. 5. Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit. "He is complete in feature and in mind. With all good grace to grace a gentleman." (Shak) "I have formerly given the general character of Mr. Addison's style and manner as natural and unaffected, easy and polite, and full of those graces which a flowery imagination diffuses over writing." (Blair) 6. Beauty, physical, intellectual, or moral; loveliness; commonly, easy elegance of manners; perfection of form. "Grace in women gains the affections sooner, and secures them longer, than any thing else." (Hazlitt) "I shall answer and thank you again For the gift and the grace of the gift." (Longfellow) 7. Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of Venus. They were commonly mentioned as three in number; namely, Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia, and were regarded as the inspirers of the qualities which give attractiveness to wisdom, love, and social intercourse. "The Graces love to weave the rose." (Moore) "The Loves delighted, and the Graces played." (Prior) 8. The title of a duke, a duchess, or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England. "How fares your Grace !" (Shak) 9. Thanks. "Yielding graces and thankings to their lord Melibeus." (Chaucer) 10. A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal. 11. Ornamental notes or short passages, either introduced by the performer, or indicated by the composer, in which case the notation signs are called grace notes, appeggiaturas, turns, etc. 12. <engineering> An act, vote, or decree of the government of the institution; a degree or privilege conferred by such vote or decree. 13. A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. Act of grace. See Act. Day of grace, the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is made and may be accepted. "That day of grace fleets fast away." (I. Watts) Days of grace, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payer to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States, the days of grace are three, but in some countries more, the usages of merchants being different. Good graces, favor; friendship. Grace cup. A cup or vessel in which a health is drunk after grace. A health drunk after grace has been said. "The grace cup follows to his sovereign's health." (Hing) Grace drink, a drink taken on rising from the table; a grace cup. "To [Queen Margaret, of Scotland] . . . We owe the custom of the grace drink, she having established it as a rule at her table, that whosoever staid till grace was said was rewarded with a bumper." (Encyc. Brit) Grace hoop, a hoop used in playing graces. See Grace. Grace note, an appoggiatura. See Appoggiatura, and def. 11 above. Grace stroke, a finishing stoke or touch; a coup de grace. Means of grace, means of securing knowledge of God, or favor with God, as the preaching of the gospel, etc. To do grace, to reflect credit upon. "Content to do the profession some grace." (Shak) To say grace, to render thanks before or after a meal. With a good grace, in a fit and proper manner grace fully; graciously. With a bad grace, in a forced, reluctant, or perfunctory manner; ungraciously. "What might have been done with a good grace would at least be done with a bad grace." (Macaulay) Synonym: Elegance, comeliness, charm, favor, kindness, mercy. Grace, Mercy. These words, though often interchanged, have each a distinctive and peculiar meaning. Grace, in the strict sense of the term, is spontaneous favor to the guilty or undeserving; mercy is kindness or compassion to the suffering or condemned. It was the grace of God that opened a way for the exercise of mercy toward men. See Elegance. Origin: F. Grace, L. Gratia, from gratus beloved, dear, agreeable; perh. Akin to Gr. To rejoice, favor, grace, Skr. Hary to desire, and E. Yearn. Cf. Grateful, Gratis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gracile fasciculus | The smaller medial subdivision of the posterior funiculus. Synonym: fasciculus gracilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracile habitus | Small stature, frail, underweight appearance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracile lobule | The anterior portion of the posteroinferior lobule of the cerebellum, the posterior portion being the semilunar lobule inferior; the two correspond to the tuber of the vermis. Synonym: lobulus gracilis, slender lobule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracile nucleus | The medial one of the three nuclei of the dorsal column, the remaining two being the cuneate nucleus and the accessory cuneate nucleus, which corresponds to the clava; it receives dorsal-root fibres conveying sensory innervation of the leg, and lower trunk, and projects, by way of the medial lemniscus, to the ventral nucleus posterior nucleus of the thalamus. Synonym: nucleus gracilis, nucleus fasciculi gracilis, nucleus funiculi gracilis, nucleus of Goll. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracile tubercle | Tubercle of gracile nucleus, the somewhat expanded upper end of the gracile fasciculus, corresponding to the position of the gracile nucleus. Synonym: tuberculum nuclei gracilis, clava, gracile tubercle, tubercle of nucleus gracilis, tuberculum gracile. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracilis | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, ramus of pubis near symphysis; insertion, shaft of tibia below medial tuberosity (see pes anserinus); action, adducts thigh, flexes knee, rotates leg medially; nerve supply, obturator. Synonym: musculus gracilis, gracilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracilis syndrome | <syndrome> Osteonecrosis of the pubic bone following trauma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gracious | 1. Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. Or bestowing mercy; characterised by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty. "A god ready to pardon, gracious and merciful." (Neh. Ix. 17) "So hallowed and so gracious in the time." (Shak) 2. Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent. "Since the birth of Cain, the first male child, . . . There was not such a gracious creature born." (Shak) 3. Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections. Synonym: Favorable, kind, benevolent, friendly, beneficent, benignant, merciful. Origin: F. Gracieux, L. Gratiosus. See Grace. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grackle | <ornithology> One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. Versicolour). See Crow blackbird, under Crow. An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna. Origin: Cf. L. Graculus jackdaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |