| gillie gilly | A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Origin: Gael. Gille, giolla, boy, lad. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Gillies' operation | A technique for reducing fractures of the zygoma and the zygomatic arch through an incision in the temporal region above the hairline. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gillies, Sir Harold | <person> British plastic surgeon, 1882-1960. See: Gillies' operation, Filatov-Gillies flap, Filatov-Gillies tubed pedicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gillmore needle | A device for obtaining the setting time of dental cement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gillyflower | <botany> 1. A name given by old writers to the clove pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus) but now to the common stock (Matthiola incana), a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white. 2. A kind of apple, of a roundish conical shape, purplish red colour, and having a large core. Alternative forms: gilliflower] Clove gillflower, the clove pink. Marsh gillyflower, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos-cuculi). Queen's, or Winter, gillyflower, damewort. Sea gillyflower, the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). Wall gillyflower, the wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri). Water gillyflower, the water violet. Origin: OE. Gilofre, gilofer, clove, OF. Girofre, girofle, F. Girofle: cf. F. Giroflee gillyflower, fr. Girofle, Gr. Clove tree; nut + leaf, akin to E. Foliage. Cf. Caryophyllus, July-flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gilmer wiring | A method of intermaxillary fixation in which single opposing teeth are wired circumferentially, and the wires are twisted together. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gilmer, Thomas | <person> U.S. Oral surgeon, 1849-1931. See: Gilmer wiring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gilse | <zoology> See Grilse. Origin: W. Gleisiad, fr. Glas blue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gilt | <zoology> A female pig, when young. See: Geld. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gilthead | <zoology> A marine fish. The name is applied to two species: The Pagrus, or Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-coloured head); called also giltpoll. The Crenilabrus melops, of the British coasts; called also golden maid, conner, sea partridge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gimbernat's ligament | <anatomy> A curved fibrous band that passes horizontally backward from the medial end of the inguinal ligament to the pectineal line; it forms the medial boundary of the femoral ring. See: aponeurosis of external abdominal oblique muscle. Synonym: ligamentum lacunare, Gimbernat's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gimbernat, Don Manuel de | <person> Spanish anatomist and surgeon, 1734-1816. See: Gimbernat's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gin | 1. To catch in a trap. 2. To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton. Origin: Ginned; Ginning. 1. Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare. 2. A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc. <chemical> A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim. 3. A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin. The name is also given to an instrument of torture worked with screws, and to a pump moved by rotary sails. Gin block, a simple form of tackle block, having one wheel, over which a rope runs; called also whip gin, rubbish pulley, and monkey wheel. Gin power, a form of horse power for driving a cotton gin. Gin race, or Gin ring, the path of the horse when putting a gin in motion. Gin saw, a saw used in a cotton gin for drawing the fibres through the grid, leaving the seed in the hopper. Gin wheel. In a cotton gin, a wheel for drawing the fibre through the grid; a brush wheel to clean away the lint. <chemical> The drum of a whim. Origin: A contraction of engine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gin recombinase | <enzyme> From phage mu; involved in DNA inversion in plants Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| gingave | <dentistry> Another name for your gums (05 Mar 2000) |