| mall | 1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. 2. A heavy blow. 3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. 4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk. "Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall." (Southey) Origin: OE. Malle, F. Mail, L. Malleus. Cf. Malleus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Mall's formula | A formula for determining the age (in days) of a human embryo; calculated as the square root of its length (measured from vertex to breech) in millimeters multiplied by 100. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mall's ridges | Rarely used eponym for pulmonary ridge's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mallard | 1. <zoology> A drake; the male of Anas boschas. 2. <zoology> A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Synonym: greenhead. Origin: F. Malari,fr. Male male + -art =-ard. See Male, and -ard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| malleable | Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonised cast iron. See Iron. Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon. Origin: F. Malleable, fr. LL. Malleare to hammer. See Malleate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| malleal | <anatomy> Pertaining to the malleus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mallear fold | One of two ligamentous bands, anterior and posterior, making folds on the tympanic side of the tympanic membrane extending from each extremity of the tympanic notch to the malleolar prominence; they mark the boundary between the tense and the flaccid portions of the tympanic membrane. Synonym: plica mallearis, plica membranae tympani, Troltsch's fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mallear prominence | A small prominence at the upper end of the stria mallearis produced by the lateral process of the malleus. Synonym: prominentia mallearis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mallear stripe | A bright line seen through the membrana tympani, produced by the attachment of the manubrium of the malleus. Synonym: mallear stripe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malleate | To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf. Origin: L. Malleatus hammered, fr. Malleus a hammer. See Mall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| malleation | The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating. Origin: LL. Malleatio: cf. OF. Malleation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mallebrin | Al(ClO3)3-9H2O;an antiseptic. Synonym: mallebrin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mallee | A growth habit in which several woody stems arise separately from a lignotuber, a plant having the above growth habit. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mallee bird | <zoology> [From native name. The leipoa. See Leipoa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mallein | An allergin, analogous to tuberculin, made from the growth products of Pseudomonas mallei, the causative agent of glanders; used as a diagnostic agent to provoke reactions in animals affected with glanders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pall-mall | A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. Alternative forms: pail-mail and pell-mell. Origin: OF. Palemail, It. Pallamagio; palla a ball (of German origin, akin to E. Ball) + magio hammer, fr. L. Malleus. See lst Ball, and Mall a beetle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| periportal space of Mall | A tissue space between the limiting lamina and the portal canal in the liver. (05 Mar 2000) |