| quick | 1. Alive; living; animate; opposed to dead or inanimate. "Not fully quyke, ne fully dead they were." (Chaucer) "The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom." (2 Tim. Iv. 1) "Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire." (Herbert) In this sense the word is nearly obsolete, except in some compounds, or in particular phrases. 2. Characterised by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready. " A quick wit." 3. Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick "Oft he her his charge of quick return Repeated." (Milton) 4. Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. "The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended." (Latimer) 5. Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen. "The air is quick there, And it pierces and sharpens the stomach." (Shak) 6. Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear. "To have an open ear, a quick eye." "They say that women are so quick." (Tennyson) 7. Pregnant; with child. Quick grass. <botany> A vein of ore which is productive, not barren. Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. Quick water, quicksilver water. Quick with child, pregnant with a living child. Synonym: Speedy, expeditious, swift, rapid, hasty, prompt, ready, active, brisk, nimble, fleet, alert, agile, lively, sprightly. Origin: As. Cwic, cwicu, cwucu, cucu, living; akin to OS. Quik, D. Kwik, OHG. Quec, chec, G. Keck bold, lively, Icel. Kvikr living, Goth. Qius, Lith. Q<ymac/vas, Russ. Zhivoi, L. Vivus living, vivere to live, Gr. Bios life, Skr. Jiva living, jiv to live. Cf. Biography, Vivid, Quitch grass, Whitlow. 1. That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge. "The works . . . Are curiously hedged with quick." (Evelyn) 2. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; used figuratively. "This test nippeth, . . . This toucheth the quick." (Latimer) "How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference !" (Fuller) 3. <botany> Quitch grass. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Quick, Armand | <person> U.S. Physician, 1894-1978. See: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick cure resin | Autopolymerizing resin, any resin that can be polymerised by chemical catalysis rather than by the application of heat; used in dentistry for dental restoration, denture repair, and impression trays. Synonym: activated resin, cold cure resin, cold-curing resin, quick cure resin, self-curing resin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's method | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Quick's test | A quantitative test for prothrombin in the blood based on the clotting time of oxalated blood plasma in the presence of thromboplastin and calcium chloride; measures the integrity of the extrinsic and common pathways of coagulation. See: prothrombin time. Synonym: Quick's method, Quick's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| quick-stop mutant | A bacterial mutant that ceases replication immediately when the temperature reaches a certain level. Compare: temperature-sensitive mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| amyloid p component | Amyloid p component is a small, non-fibrillar glycoprotein found in normal serum and in all amyloid deposits. It has a pentagonal (pentaxin) structure. It acts as an acute phase protein in the mouse, modulates immunologic responses in man, inhibits elastase, and has been suggested as an indicator of liver disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anterior component of force | A force operating to move teeth anteriorly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blood component removal | Any procedure in which blood is withdrawn from a donor, a portion is separated and retained and the remainder is returned to the donor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blood component transfusion | The transfer of blood components such as erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets, and plasma from a donor to a recipient or back to the donor. This process differs from the procedures undertaken in plasmapheresis and types of cytapheresis (plateletpheresis and leukapheresis) where, following the removal of plasma or the specific cell components, the remainder is transfused back to the donor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| p18 component, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase | <enzyme> Shares a protein motif with the beta and gamma subunits of eukaryotic elongation factor 1; amino acid sequence given in first source Registry number: EC 6.1.1.- Synonym: p18 aminoacyl-trna synthase (26 Jun 1999) |
| granular component of nucleolus | Area of nucleolus that appears granular in the electron microscope and contains 15nm diameter particles that are maturing ribosomes. In contrast to the pale staining and fibrillar areas. (18 Nov 1997) |
| component | <physiology> A constituent element or part, specifically in neurology, a series of neurons forming a functional system for conducting the afferent and efferent impulses in the somatic and splanchnic mechanisms of the body. (05 Jan 1998) |
| component A, Rab geranylgeranyl transferase | <chemical> Binds unprenylated rab1a and presents it to the catalytic component b; do not confuse with rep-1 from yeast; see also mrs6 protein Synonym: rab escort protein, rab geranylgeranyltransferase component a, rep-1 protein, rab escort protein-1, choroideraemia gene product, chm gene product, mrs6 gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| component E, glutamate mutase | <chemical> The large subunit of glutamate mutase; from clostridium tetanomorphum; has 485 amino acid residues; mw 53,708 da; has been sequenced Synonym: mute gene product, clostridium, mute protein, clostridium (26 Jun 1999) |