| shaggy | Rough with long hair or wool. "About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin." (Dryden) 2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. "[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell." (Keble) Origin: From Shag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| shaggy aorta | A colloquial but fitting description for severe arterial degeneration of the aorta, the surface of which is extremely friable and likely to cause atheroembolism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaggy chorion | The part of the chorion where the villi persist, forming the foetal part of the placenta. Synonym: shaggy chorion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaggy heart | <radiology> Basilar interstitial lung disease, characteristic of: asbestosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| shaggy kinase | <enzyme> From drosophila; shares homology with mammalian glycogen synthase kinase 3; appears to be important for the normal seggregation of bristle precursor cells in the imaginal epithelium; can also function as negative regulators of jun-ap-1 Registry number: EC 2.7.1.- Synonym: sgg kinase, shaggy gene product, sgg protein, zw3 protein, zw3 gene product, zeste-white 3 kinase, zeste-white 3 (26 Jun 1999) |
| shaggy pericardium | Acute pericarditis with fibrinous exudate. See: bread-and-butter pericardium. Synonym: hairy heart, pericarditis villosa, shaggy pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |