| agnomen | 1. An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus. 2. An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just. Origin: L.; ad + nomen name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| agnomination | 1. A surname. 2. Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination. Origin: L. Agnominatio. See Agnomen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnosia | <neurology> Loss of ability to recognise objects, people, sounds, shapes or smells. Usually classified according to the sense or senses affected (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch). Symptom common to tumours of the parietal lobe of the cerebral hemispheres. (16 Dec 1997) |
| agnosticism | That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc, can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus castus | <botany> A species of Vitex (V. Agnus castus); the chaste tree. "And wreaths of agnus castus others bore." (Dryden) Origin: Gr. A willowlike tree, used at a religious festival; confused with holy, chaste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agnus dei | A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag. A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope. A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei." Origin: L, lamb of God. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| agomphious | Congenital absence of the teeth; it may involve all (total anodontia) or only some of the teeth (partial anodontia, hypodontia), and both the deciduous and the permanent dentition, or only teeth of the permanent dentition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agomphosis | Congenital absence of the teeth; it may involve all (total anodontia) or only some of the teeth (partial anodontia, hypodontia), and both the deciduous and the permanent dentition, or only teeth of the permanent dentition. (12 Dec 1998) |
| agonadal | Denoting the absence of gonads. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal | Relating to the process of dying or the moment of death, so called because of the former erroneous notion that dying is a painful process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal clot | Intravascular thrombosis ascribed to the process of dying. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal infection | An acute infection, commonly pneumonic or septic, occurring toward the end of any disease and often the cause of death. Synonym: agonal infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal leukocytosis | One that occurs in a person just prior to death, especially in one who has a "slow death." Synonym: agonal leukocytosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal rhythm | An idioventricular rhythm, characterised by unusually wide and bizarre ventricular complexes, often seen in moribund patients. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agonal thrombus | A heart clot formed during the act of dying after prolonged heart failure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| agar |
any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods
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| agaric |
fungus used in the preparation of punk for fuses a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside
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protagonist: the principal character in a work of fiction someone involved in a contest or battle (as in an agon) a muscle that contracts while another relaxes; "when bending the elbow the biceps are the agonist" (biochemistry) a drug that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiological reaction
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agar: a colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods
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| age |
how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age" historic period: an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age" a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld" begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" old age: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" senesce: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" long time: a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
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| AG | a bank named by a multi-bank lending syndicate to protect their interests |
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| AG | a herbicide used in the Vietnam War to defoliate forest areas |
| AG | a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts |
| AG | of or relating to an agent or agency |
| AG | the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the hapening denoted by the verb in the clause |
| AG | youthful appearance in an old person |
| AG | annual to perennial herbs or shrubs of eastern United States and Central and South America |
| AG | American herb having flat-topped clusters of small white flower heads |
| AG | any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers |
| AG | rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers |
| AG | small tender herb grown for its fluffy brushlike blue to lavender blooms |
| AG | form into one cluster |