| grandfather | A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. <zoology> See Dady longlegs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| grandiose | Pertaining to feelings of great importance, expansiveness, or delusions of grandeur. Origin: It. Grandioso, fr. L. Grandis, large (05 Mar 2000) |
| grandiose delusion | A delusion in which one believes himself possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance and/or power, a common feature of schizophrenia. (27 Sep 1997) |
| grandiose delusions | A fixed false belief that involves themes of special powers or abilities (for example communicating with deceased relatives or extraterrestrial) (27 Sep 1997) |
| grandiose type of paranoid disorder | A delusion in which the person believes that he or she possesses some great but unrecognised talent or insight, or has made an important discovery, with subsequent efforts toward official or public recognition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Grandry | M., 19th century French anatomist. See: Grandry's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Grandry's corpuscle | General sensory endings in the beak, mouth, and tongue of birds; similar to Merkel's corpuscle's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger projection | G. View, reversed half-axial view; uncommonly used PA view of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger's line | On lateral skull radiographs, the line produced by the groove of the optic chiasm or sulcus prechiasmatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger, Amedee | <person> U.S. Radiologist, 1879-1939. See: Granger's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grangerism | The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. Origin: So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose "Biographical History of England" (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| graniferous | Bearing grain, or seeds like grain. Origin: L. Qranifer; granum grain + ferre to bear: cf. F. Granifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granilla | Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect. Origin: Sp, small seed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granins | Family of related acidic proteins (400-600 residues) found in many endocrine cell secretory vesicles. Secretogranin 1 = chromogranin B, secretogranin 2 = chromogranin C. (18 Nov 1997) |
| granisetron | <chemical> A serotonin receptor (5ht-3 selective) antagonist that has been used as an antiemetic for cancer chemotherapy patients. Pharmacological action: antiemetics, serotonin antagonists. Chemical name: 1H-Indazole-3-carboxamide, 1-methyl-N-(9-methyl-9-azabicyclo(3.3.1)non-3-yl)-, endo- (12 Dec 1998) |