| Mo | Symbol for molybdenum. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mo 1 | M_2 integrin of leucocytes. (18 Nov 1997) |
| moa | <paleontology> Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich. Origin: Native name. (06 Mar 1998) |
| MoAb | <abbreviation> Monoclonal antibody. (05 Mar 2000) |
| moan | 1. To bewail audibly; to lament. "Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone." (Prior) 2. To afflict; to distress. "Which infinitely moans me." (Beau. & Fl) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mobile | 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." 2. Characterised by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily. 3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. "The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition." (Hawthorne) 4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features. 5. <physiology> Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement. Origin: L. Mobilis, for movibilis, fr. Movere to move: cf. F. Mobile. See Move. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mobile genetic element | <molecular biology> Small, mobile DNA sequences that can replicate and insert copies at random sites within chromosomes. They have nearly identical sequences at each end, oppositely oriented (inverted) repeats and code for the enzyme, transposase, that catalyses their insertion. Bacteria have two types of transposon, simple transposons that have only the genes needed for insertion and complex transposons that contain genes in addition to those needed for insertion. Eukaryotes contain two classes of mobile genetic elements, the first are like bacterial transposons in that DNA sequences move directly. The second class (retrotransposons) move by producing RNA that is transcribed, by reverse transcriptase, into DNA which is then inserted at a new site. (13 Nov 1997) |
| mobile health units | Movable facilities in which diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided to the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mobile ion carrier | <chemistry> A molecule that allows ions to cross lipid bilayers. There are two classes: carriers and channels. Carriers, like valinomycin, form cage like structures around specific ions, diffusing freely through the hydrophobic regions of the bilayer. Channels, like gramicidin, form continuous aqueous pores through the bilayer, allowing ions to diffuse through. See: ion channels. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mobile part of nasal septum | The anterior movable part of the nasal septum formed by the medial crus of the greater alar cartilage on each side. Synonym: pars mobilis septi nasi, septum mobile nasi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mobile spasm | A tonic spasm occurring in spastic infantile hemiplegia on attempted movement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mobilisation | <surgery> The process of making a fixed part or stored substance mobile, as by separating a part from surrounding structures to make it accessible for an operative procedure or by causing release into the circulation for body use of a substance stored in the body. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mobilise | 1. To liberate material stored in the body; more specifically, to move a substance from tissue stores into the bloodstream. 2. To excite quiescent material to physiologic activity. Origin: Fr. Mobiliser, to liberate, make ready, fr. L. Mobilis, movable (05 Mar 2000) |
| mobility | Capability of movement, of being moved or of flowing freely. Origin: L. Mobilitas (18 Nov 1997) |
| mobilization | 1. Making movable; restoring the power of motion in a joint. 2. The act or the result of the act of mobilizing; exciting a hitherto quiescent process into physiologic activity. Origin: see mobilise (05 Mar 2000) |