| shop | 1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc, are sold by retail. "From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter." (Cowper) 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop." (Shak) Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc. To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. Synonym: Store, warehouse. See Store. Origin: OE. Shoppe, schoppe, AS. Sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. Schup a shed, G. Schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. Scopf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| shop typhus | A mild form of typhus occurring in urban areas, reported in Mediterranean areas. Synonym: urban typhus. Siberian tick typhus, tick-borne rickettsiosis caused by infection with Rickettsia sibirica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope fibroma | A connective tissue tumour of cottontail rabbits caused by a poxvirus of the genus Leporipoxvirus and found by Shope to be transmissible with cellular suspensions or Berkefeld filtrates; it is related to myxomatosis and is used in Europe as a source of vaccine to protect against the myxoma virus. Synonym: rabbit fibroma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope fibroma virus | <virology> Poxvirus associated with the production of benign skin tumours in rabbits. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Shope papilloma | A papillomatous growth found in wild cottontail rabbits that is caused by a virus in the family Papovaviridae and can be transferred to domestic rabbits where it will cause similar growths. A high percentage of these growths may become malignant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope papilloma virus | <virology> Papovavirus that produces papillomas (warts) in rabbits. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Shope, Richard | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1902-1966. See: Shope fibroma, Shope fibroma virus, Shope papilloma, Shope papilloma virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shopwoman | A woman employed in a shop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |