| hood | 1. State; condition. "How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?" (Spenser) 2. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially: A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed. A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. "All hoods make not monks." . A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure. An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood. A covering for a horse's head. <veterinary> A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. 3. Anything resembling a hood in form or use; as: The top or head of a carriage. A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind. A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue. The top of a pump. A covering for a mortar. <botany> A covering or porch for a companion hatch. 4. The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. Origin: OE. Hood, hod, AS. Hod; akin to D. Hoed hat, G. Hut, OHG. Huot, also to E. Hat, and prob. To E. Heed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| hooded | 1. Covered with a hood. 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. 3. Hood-shaped; especially. <botany> Rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. 4. <zoology> Having the head conspicuously different in colour from the rest of the plumage; said of birds. Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake. Hooded crow, a European crow; called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow. Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull. Hooded merganser. See Merganser. Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap. Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser. Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc. Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hooded prepuce | Incomplete circumferential formation of foreskin with a dorsal component (the dorsal hood) but an absent or incomplete ventral portion. Typically seen in boys with hypospadias or isolated chordee. In the rare condition of epispadias, the hooded portional prepuce may be ventral. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hoody | <zoology> The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| dorsal hood | A triangular tendinous aponeurosis including the tendon of the extensor digitorum centrally, interosseus tendons on each side, and a lumbrical tendon laterally. It covers the dorsal aspect of the metacarpophalangeal joint and the proximal phalanx. Synonym: dorsal hood, extensor aponeurosis, extensor expansion. (05 Mar 2000) |
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