| SMR | Severe Mental Retardation |
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| SMR | Sleeping metabolic rate |
| SMR | Standard Mortality Rate |
| SMR | Standard Mortality Ratio |
| SMR | Standardised Morbidity Ratio |
| SMR | Standardised mortality rate |
| SMR | Standardised Mortality Ratio |
| SMR | standard metabolic rate |
| SMRV | Squirrel monkey retrovirus |
| SMS | Smith-Magenis Syndrome |
| smooth muscular sphincter | A sphincter of smooth musculature. Synonym: smooth muscular sphincter. Origin: G. Lissos, smooth, + sphincter (05 Mar 2000) |
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| smooth strain | <microbiology> Bacterial strains that have altered outer cell wall carbohydrate chains causing colonies on agar to change their appearance from smooth to dull. In Streptococci the smooth strains are virulent whereas the rough strains are not. This is partly because the rough strains are much more readily phagocytosed. (17 Dec 1997) |
| smooth surface caries | Caries initiated on the smooth surfaces of teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smooth-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum | Endoplasmic reticulum that is lacking in ribosomal granules; involved in synthesis of complex lipids and fatty acids, detoxification of drugs, carbohydrate synthesis, and sequestering of Ca++. Synonym: smooth-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smore | To smother. See Smoor. "Some dying vomit blood, and some were smored." (Du Bartas) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smother | 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick covering, as of ashes, of smoke, or the like; as, to smother a fire. 3. Hence, to repress the action of; to cover from public view; to suppress; to conceal; as, to smother one's displeasure. Origin: OE. Smotheren; akin to E. Smoor. See Smoor. 1. Stifling smoke; thick dust. 2. A state of suppression. "Not to keep their suspicions in smother. <zoology>" (Bacon) Smother fly, an aphid. Origin: OE. Smorther. See Smother. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smudge cells | Immature leukocytes of any type that have undergone partial breakdown during preparation of a stained smear or tissue section, because of their greater fragility; smudge cell's are seen in largest numbers in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Synonym: basket cell, Gumprecht's shadows, shadow cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smut | 1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. 2. <chemical> Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. 3. <botany> An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis. 4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. "He does not stand upon decency . . . But will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room." (Addison) Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut. Origin: Akin to Sw. Smuts, Dan. Smuds, MHG. Smuz, G. Schmutz, D. Smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig, smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E. Smite. See Smite, and cf. Smitt, Smutch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| small nuclear ribonucleoprotein |
(snRNP; pronounced snurp(s)) A compound comprising small nuclear RNA (qv) and nuclear protein, that is heavily involved in the post-transcriptional processing of mRNA, especially the removal of introns. snRNPs are a major component of spliceosomes (qv).
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| small nuclear RNA |
(snRNA) Short RNA transcripts of 100-300 bp that associate with proteins to form small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles (snRNPs) (qv); most snRNAs are components of the spliceosomes (qv) that excise introns from pre-mRNAs in RNA processing. See RNA.
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| small intestine |
the long tube running from the stomach to the large intestine that is involved in digestion of foods and absorption of nutrients
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| smallpox |
a highly contagious and often fatal viral infection that has been completely eradicated by immunization
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| smear |
a sample of cells spread across a glass slide to be examined through a microscope
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| SM | of or associated with people of fashion |
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| SM | elegant and stylish |
| SM | characterized by quickness and ease in learning |
| SM | an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments |
| SM | having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence |
| SM | people who are highly experienced or who have inside information |
| SM | (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct) |
| SM | money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors (especially if they have inside information) |
| SM | the fashionable elite |
| SM | dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion |
| SM | make neat, smart, or trim |
| SM | a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore |