| sap | 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. 2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. <botany> Sap ball, a vessel that conveys sap. Origin: AS. Saep; akin to OHG. Saf, G. Saft, Icel. Safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. Sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sapajo | <zoology> The sapajou. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sapajou | <zoology> Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. Subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. Chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. Hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin. Origin: F. Sapajou, sajou, Braz. Sajuassu. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sapan wood | <botany> A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood. Alternative forms: sappan wood. Origin: Malay sapang. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sapecin | <protein> Insect defensin produced by the flesh fly, Sarcophagae peregrina. (18 Nov 1997) |
| saphena | See: vein. Origin: Med. L. Attributed by some as derived fr. Ar. Safin, standing; by others, fr. G. Saphenes, manifest, clearly visible (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenectomy | Excision of a saphenous vein. Origin: saphena + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous | <anatomy> Manifest; applied to the two principal superficial veins of the lower limb of man. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vein passes. Origin: Gr. Manifest Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saphenous branch of descending genicular artery | <anatomy, artery> Branch of descending genicular artery supplying skin of the upper part of the medial aspect of the leg; anastomosis: medial inferior genicular artery (articular vascular network of knee). Synonym: ramus saphenus arteriae descendentis genicularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous hiatus | The opening in the fascia lata inferior to the medial part of the inguinal ligament through which the saphenous vein passes to enter the femoral vein. Synonym: hiatus saphenus, fossa ovalis, saphenous hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous nerve | <anatomy, nerve> A branch of the femoral, extending from the femoral triangle to the foot, becoming subcutaneous on the medial side of the knee; it supplies cutaneous branches to the skin of the leg and foot, by way of infrapatellar and medial crural branches. Synonym: nervus saphenus, internal saphenous nerve, long saphenous nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous opening | The opening in the fascia lata inferior to the medial part of the inguinal ligament through which the saphenous vein passes to enter the femoral vein. Synonym: hiatus saphenus, fossa ovalis, saphenous hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saphenous vein | <anatomy, vein> The vein which drains the foot and leg. (12 Dec 1998) |
| saphenous veins | See: accessory saphenous vein, great saphenous vein, small saphenous vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sapience | The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. "Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered sapience." (Tennyson) Origin: L. Sapientia: cf. F. Sapience. See Sapient. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cell sap | <cell biology> Effectively equivalent to the term cytosol. (26 Mar 1998) |
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| nuclear sap | The presumably fluid substance or gel of the nucleus in which stainable elements were believed to be suspended; much that was formerly considered to be karyolymph is now known to be euchromatin. Synonym: nuclear hyaloplasm, nuclear sap, nucleochylema, nucleochyme. Origin: karyo-+ L. Lympha, clear water (05 Mar 2000) |